Listening

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What is the deep listening?  Sama is

a greeting from the secret ones inside

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the heart, a letter.  The branches of 

your intelligence grow new leaves in

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the wind of this listening.  The body

reaches a peace.  Rooster sound comes,

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reminding you of your love for dawn.

The reed flute and the singer's lips:

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the knack of how spirit breathes into

us becomes as simple and ordinary as

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eating and drinking.  The dead rise with 

the pleasure of listening.  If someone

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can't hear a trumpet melody, sprinkle

dirt on his head and declare him dead.

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Listen, and feel the beauty of your

separation, the unsayable absence.

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There's a moon inside every human being.

Learn to be companions with it.  Give

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more of your life to this listening.  As

brightness is to time, so you are to

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the one who talks to the deep ear in

your chest.  I should sell my tongue

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and buy a thousand ears when that

one steps near and begins to speak.

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~ Rumi

from The Glance

translated by Coleman Barks

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