Loba Blogs

When a baby is taken from the wet nurse,
it easily forgets her
and starts eating solid food.

Seeds feed awhile on ground,
then lift up into the sun.

Taste the filtered light
and work your way toward wisdom
with no personal covering.

That’s how you came here, like a star
without a name. Move across the night sky
with those anonymous lights.

Oh, if a tree could wander
and move with foot and wings!

It would not suffer the axe blows
and not the pain of saws!

For would the sun not wander
away in every night?

How could at every morning
the world be lit up?

And if the ocean’s water
would not rise to the sky,

How would the plants be quickened
by streams and gentle rain?

The drop that left its homeland,
the sea, and then returned ?

It found an oyster waiting
and grew into a pearl.

Did Yussef not leave his father,
in grief and tears and despair?

Did he not, by such a journey,
gain kingdom and fortune wide?

Did not the Prophet travel
to far Medina, friend?

And there he found a new kingdom
and ruled a hundred lands.

You lack a foot to travel?
Then journey into yourself!

And like a mine of rubies
receive the sunbeams? print!

Out of yourself? such a journey
will lead you to your self,

It leads to transformation
of dust into pure gold!

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!

Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?

We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.

We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.

Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!

Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue.

If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

Our death is our wedding with eternity.
What is the secret? “God is One.”

The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.

For he who is living in the Light of God,
The death of the carnal soul is a blessing.

Regarding him, say neither bad nor good,
For he is gone beyond the good and the bad.

Fix your eyes on God and do not talk about what is invisible,
So that he may place another look in your eyes.

It is in the vision of the physical eyes
That no invisible or secret thing exists.

But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God
What thing could remain hidden under such a Light?

Although all lights emanate from the Divine Light
Don’t call all these lights “the Light of God”;
It is the eternal light which is the Light of God,
The ephemeral light is an attribute of the body and the flesh.

Oh God who gives the grace of vision!
The bird of vision is flying towards You with the wings of desire.