Voice of the Day: Jalaluddin Rumi | Sojourners

Voice of the Day: Jalaluddin Rumi

You have spent your seeing, hearing, intelligence
and the pure celestial substances;
what have you purchased form the earth?
I gave you hands and feet as spade and mattock
for tilling the soil of good works;
when did they by themselves become existent?

- Jalaluddin Rumi,
"How Have You Spent Your Life?"

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