Saturday, July 09, 2016

Rumi

Those that make you return, for whatever reason,
to God's solitude, be grateful to them.
Worry about the others, who give you
delicious comforts that keep you from prayer.
Friends are enemies sometimes,
and enemies friends.

- Rumi, from the poem Checkmate, The Essential Rumi translations by Coleman Barks (p 176)

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