What the material world values doesnot shine the same in the truth of the soul. You have been interestedin your shadow. Look instead directly at the sun. What can we know by justwatching the time-and-space shapes of each other? Someone half awake in the night sees imaginary dangers; the morning star rises; the horizon growsdefined; people become friends in a moving caravan. Night birds may thinkdaybreak a kind of darkness, becausethat's all they know. It's a fortunatebird who's not intrigued with evening,who flies in the sun we call Shams.
Excerpt from the translations of Rumi by Coleman Barks
