Love for Certain Work
Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
Traveling is as refreshing for some
as staying at home is for others.
as staying at home is for others.
Solitude in a mountain place
fills with companionship for this one,
and weariness for that one.
This person loves being in charge
of the workings of a community.
This other one loves the ways
heated iron can be shaped with a hammer.
Each has been given a strong desire
for certain work, a love for those motions,
and all motion is love.
The way sticks and pieces of dead grass and
leavesshift about in the wind
and with the directions of rain and puddle-water
on the ground, those motions
are all following the love
they have been given.
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.
Rumi
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