Some

people talk

to animals. Not many

listen though. That’s

the problem.

 

A.A. Milne

 

 

Pay attention

to the weather, to what

breaks your heart, to what

lifts your heart. Write

it down.
 
 
Ellen Meloy

 

 

Just because we

recognize the source of the problem

does not mean that it will disappear immediately.

Perseverance in truth and correctness

dissolves the influence

in time.

 

third changing line

from The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 36, Ming I / Darkening of the Light

(full text here)

 

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Darkness

has been given as

a nightshirt to sleep in.

Remember how human beings

were composed from water and dust

for blood and flesh with oily resins heated

in fire to make a skeleton. Then the soul, the divine

light, was breathed into human shapes. The work now is

to help our bodies become pure light. It may look like

this is not happening. But in a cocoon every bit

of worm-dissolving slime becomes silk.

As we take in light, each part

of us turns to

silk.

 

We

made the night

a darkness, but we bring

shining dawnlight out of that.

In the same way the mound of your

grave will bloom with resurrection. Sufis

and those on the path of the heart use darkness

to go within. During the night vigil the universe

is theirs. With all the kings and sultans and

their learned counselors asleep, everyone

is unemployed, except those wakeful

few and the divine

presence.

 

Bahauddin