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Two Ways of Running

A certain man had a jealous wife and a very, very appealing maidservant.The wife was careful not to leave them alone, ever. For six years they were never leftin a room together. But then one dayat the public bath the…

Two Kinds of Intelligence

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,as a child in school memorizes facts and conceptsfrom books and from what the teacher says,collecting information from the traditional sciencesas well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in…

An Awkward Comparison

This physical world has no two things alike. Every comparison is awkwardly rough.You can put a lion next to a man, but the placing is hazardous to both.Say the body is like this lamp.It has to have a wick and…

Checkmate

Borrow the beloved’s eyes.Look through them and you’ll see the beloved’s faceeverywhere. No tiredness, no jaded boredom.”I shall be your eye and your hand and your loving.” Let that happen, and thingsyou have hated will become helpers.A certain preacher always…

I Come Before Dawn

Muhammad says, “I come before dawnto chain you and drag you off.”It’s amazing, and funny, that you have to be pulled awayfrom being tortured, pulled outinto this Spring garden, but that’s the way it is.Almost everyone must be bound and…

Birdwings

Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirrorup to where you’re bravely working.Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.If it were always a…

Rough Metaphores

Someone said, “there is no dervish, or if there is a dervish, that dervish is not there.”Look at a candle flame in bright noon sunlight. If you put cotton next to it, the cotton will burn, but its light has…

Story Water

A story is like waterthat you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fireand your skin. It lets them meet,and it cleans you! Very few can sit downin the middle of the fire itselflike a salamander or Abraham,We…

Joy at Sudden Disappointment

Whatever comes, comes from a need,a sore distress, a hurting want. Mary’s pain made the baby Jesus.Her womb opened its lipsand spoke the Word. Every part of you has a secret language.Your hands and your feet say what you’ve done.…