WANTING OUR LIFE 

TO MAKE SENSE

Quote for Today - February 17, 2013


WANTING OUR LIFE TO MAKE SENSE

All day long you do this, and then 
even in your sleep .... pan for gold.

We are looking to find something
to celebrate with great enthusiasm,

wanting all our battles and toil
and our life to make sense.

"I found it, I found it, I found it!"
a hermit once began to shout,
after having spent years
in solitude, meditating,

"Where?" a young shepherd boy
nearby asked, "Where?"

And the hermit replied,
"It may take a while,
but I will show you.
For now, just sit near to me."

All day long we do this with our movements 
and our thoughts ... pan for gold.



Hafiz [c. 1320-1389], in Daniel Ladinsky, A Year With Hafiz, Penguin Books, page 40