“If we are not together in the heart, what’s the point?
When body and soul are not dancing,
There is no pleasure in colorful clothing.” (Barks, The Big
Red Book, pg. 62)
Ahhh, Rumi! Timeless again, don’t ya think? Live it, love
it. Embrace your “God”, live your faith, whatever that faith may be. Imagine life
without faith…it is so empty.
Gotcha…immediately some readers assumed I meant religious faith,
Christian Fatih, when all I meant was faith, a belief in something. There are
powers greater than we puny humans, and as soon as we admit it, we begin to
have faith in something other than ourselves. A belief that nature will
continue to thrive is faith, thinking that nature is weaker than humans is not
faith, it is blasphemy against Mother Earth. A belief in Reincarnation is
faith, belief in God is faith, and belief in your fellow man can be faith as
well.
But it isn’t enough to just have faith, one live the faith
as well. Going to your church on your Sabbath and then ignoring your God the rest
of the week is not faith. Joining in with the faithless to denigrate the power
of nature, to claim that humans are more powerful than nature, and that humans
can change something as immense as the planet is not healthy; walking along in
a local park, picking up a few pieces of trash along the way, and reveling in
the beauty that surrounds us while understanding that at any time, nature can
take us out, that is faith.
Okay, disjointed as hell, and useless, really, but that is where
the brain went when I sat down to type. The body and the soul have to be
together or life is no fun. Worrying all the time about things we can not
change, that is part of the no fun, let it go, let your heart dance with your
soul!
2 comments:
Funny, I read that as meaning one needs to be spiritually and physically tuned (fit, whatever) in order to be whole...you can be of sound mind and not body or the opposite
That's the cool thing about poetry, and good art for that matter. It means different things to different people!
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