Lili Naghdi's Blog - Posts Tagged "spring"
Welcoming Spring with an excerpt from "On Loving"
"Have you ever wondered how it is that Nature awakens with spring’s arrival every year, putting its glory on display repeatedly? Have you considered how it is that the seemingly dead branch of a bare tree utterly determines the exact time to finally blossom? Or how the season’s drenching rain, drumming on your roof, splattering on your windows, satiates every green thing, inspiring it to embrace life once more? For me the arrival of spring brings all these questions to mind but also reminds me of my own inner transformation, many years ago. The beginning of this magnificent season is a reminder of the evolution of my lonely soul so that it embraced my inner self, my emotions and my most delicate being. It is a reminder of how willingly I opened the gates to my soul and wholeheartedly immersed myself in love although I had no notion of it to begin with. Many centuries ago, Rumi portrayed this transformation:
I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star."
I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star."
