The Conference of the Birds by Attar

Author:Attar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

The Hoopoe Replies to the Bird Who Risks It All

This Path is not for everyone.

Detachment is enough provision for this journey.

If you give away all that you possess,

you proceed clean, steeped in purity.

Rend what’s sewn, don’t darn the torn;

burn everything, down to the tips of your hair.

When you’ve burned it all with your blazing sighs,

then gather and sit in the seething ashes.

This is how to free yourself completely—

or else remain bound and drink grief’s blood.

You can’t set foot on the Path

without cutting loose what leashes you to the world.

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