The Odds

The Circle Around the Zero

A lover doesn't figure the odds.

He figures he came clean from God as a gift without a reason, so he gives without cause or calculation or limit.

A conventionally religious person behaves a certain way to achieve salvation.

A lover gambles everything, the self, the circle around the zero!

He or she cuts and throws it all away.

This is beyond any religion.

Lovers do not require from God any proof, or any text, nor do they knock on a door to make sure this is the right street.

They run, and they run.

~ Rumi ~

(Version by Coleman Barks, Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion)