[Sunlight] "These impulses to action"

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You can't sit inactive for a moment;
you can't rest until some good or bad
has come out of you.
These impulses to action
bring your inner consciousness
more clearly into outer view.
How then should the reel—
which is the body—
become still, when the line's end—
which is the mind—is pulling.

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Yek zamân bi kâr na-tavâni neshast
tâ badi yâ nika'i az to na-jast
in taqâzâ-hâ-ye kâr az bahr-e ân
shod movakkal tâ shavad serret `iyân
Pas kalâbeh-ye tan kojâ sâken shavad
chon sar-e reshteh-ye zamiresh mi-kashad

-- Mathnawi II: 996-998
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] "These impulses to action"