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That Kind of Sleep

The world is that kind of sleep.

The dust of many crumbled cities
settles over us like a forgetful doze,
but we are older than those cities.
......................We began
as a mineral. We emerged into plant life
and into the animal state, and then into being human,
and always we have forgotten our former states,
except in early spring when we slightly recall
being green again.

- Jalaluddin Rumi (on whiskey river)

Posted by joh at 11:33 PM on August 17, 2003
Category: quotes
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