Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
Alhamdulillah! The wild geese have come back again. I can see them in the pond now, preening their feathers and honking their song. Spring is in the air! And so, Sufi wisdom and a poem as the days lengthen and the heart rejoices :)
NATURE SPEAKS LOUDER THAN THE CALL FROM THE MINARET.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
WILD GEESE
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
- Mary Oliver
- From the Sufi Family Yahoo Group
Ya Haqq!
Posted by darvish 
The Way of Tao
May 4, 2008The cloud does not insist upon its form,
The wave does not force its way over the ocean,
So why should you clutch so tightly
Your little map?
Follow your heart
And know joy in all things.
The path of freedom
Has no markers,
Yet it leads to fulfillment;
The path of confusion
Is crowded with signs,
Pointing in all directions.
The Great Way is a humble, solitary path,
Leading Home:
Follow it closely and be guided.
How do you know you are on the Way?
When your map no longer serves you.
- Taken with thanks from dear Sister Krishna’s Deciphering Spirituality blog.
Ya Haqq!