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At age ten: "Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect."

At fifty: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

There is a field. I'll meet you there." (Rumi)

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I love this quote by Rumi. I have held it close for year as inspiration and as an aspiration. Just recently (at 61), I wrote this poem that I hope is ok to share here.

The Field—A Little Bit More Than a Sijo

'Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing

and rightdoing, there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

— Jelaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

Before I meet you there, may I steal a moment to breathe out,

to offer myself some tender, loving kindness and mercy,

resolve a false image I carry of you as enemy.

I will breathe in,

then,

I’ll meet you there,

in that field.

{And breathe out.}

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Definitely okay to share, Wendy. ☺️

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Oh delicious! What a juxtaposition of those two... magnificent!

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I play in that same field! :-)

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I am learning to play there too...

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