Steven

“TRIPPING OVER JOY

What is the difference
Between your experience of Existence
And that of a saint?

The saint knows
That the spiritual path
Is a sublime chess game with God

And that the Beloved
Has just made such a Fantastic Move

That the saint is now continually
Tripping over Joy
And bursting out in Laughter
And saying, “I Surrender!”

Whereas, my dear,
I am afraid you still think
You have a thousand serious moves.”
― Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

“What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,
When this was now a king, and now is clay?”
― William Shakespeare, King John

“If it be love indeed, tell me how much.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.

I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.

Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra