let the beauty we love be what we do

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty 

and frightened. Don't open the door to the study 

and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. 

 

Let the beauty we love be what we do. 

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. 

 

[Rumi {Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī} {1207-1273} 'Today, like every other day', trans. by Coleman Barks, in Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation]