Two Giant Fat People (by Hafiz a 14thC Persian poet and mystic see links at the end for details)
God and I have become
Like two giant fat people
Living in a tiny boat.
We keep
Bumping into each other
And laughing.
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From Read the Spirit A review of Daniel Ladinsky’s A Year with Hafiz: Daily Contemplations.
“‘In the 19th Century, (Ralph Waldo) Emerson wrote that one of Hafiz’s greatest gifts was “his intellectual liberty, which is a certificate of profound thought. We accept the religions and politics into which we fall; and it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles—that the mind suffers no religion and no empire but its own. It indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and revered, and therefore is always provoking the accusation of irreligion.”
Below a blog post reflecting on the poem. Well worth reading.
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