Essence of the One
Love Dogs
One night a man was crying,
Allah! Allah!
His lips grew sweet with the praising,
until a cynic said,
“So! I have heard you
calling out, but have you ever
gotten any response?”
The man had no answer to that.
He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep.
He dreamed he saw Khidr, the guide of souls,
in a thick, green foliage.
“Why did you stop praising?”
“Because I’ve never heard anything back.”
“This longing
you express is the return message.”
The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup.
Listen to the moan of a dog for its master.
That whining is the connection.
There are love dogs
no one knows the names of.
Give your life
to be one of them.”
by Jalaluddin Rumi
The heart is made to yearn
to return to its lover.
It is made to constantly turn
between the realm of duality and the realm of oneness,
between the world of separation and the world of unity.
No matter how much pain of separation it endures,
it never forgets its way home.
It yearns to live forever
in the Essence of the One.
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