If you are elated by the Divine

by Farid ud-Din Attar

English version by Sholeh Wolpé
Original Language Persian/Farsi

If you are elated by the Divine
even for a moment, the world grows
too small to contain you.

A heart made glad by the Almighty
vanishes from the world, freed.

Celebrate that eternal Friend;
don't stay in your skin like an ephemeral flower.
Go on, break out of your mortality.

-- from The Conferences of the Birds, by Attar / Translated by Sholeh Wolpé

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