Zero Circle

Be helpless, dumbfounded, 
Unable to say yes or no. 
Then a stretcher will come from grace 
To gather us up. 

We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty 
If we say we can, we’re lying. 
If we say No, we don’t see it, 
That No will behead us 
And shut tight our window onto spirit. 

So let us rather not be sure of anything, 
Besides ourselves, and only that, so 
Miraculous beings come running to help. 
Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute, 
We shall be saying finally, 
With tremendous eloquence, 
Lead us. 
When we have totally surrendered to that beauty, 
We shall be a mighty kindness. 

~ by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) 
translation Coleman Barks

Listen to Elizabeth Comb’s chant from this quote.