Reality

This is a short poem on Reality directly from the Persian text of Rumi. The original is beautiful and cannot be adequately translated, but the meaning is profound in any language.

Seek the art of loosening the knots.*
Quick! Before your soul leaves your body.
Leave behind that nothing that seems like reality.
Seek the reality that seems like nothing.

* Interestingly, one of the terms for forgiveness in Greek (apoluo) means to undo knots.