Yet Again, Come, Come

Thorn explains in fourteen short words the true goal of the Craft of the Wise:

Showing up to my life with as much attention as is within my capacity.

Minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, that's the challenge. It's just incredibly easy to say, but then we wake up late and get on a crowded metro car and get an e-mail that enrages us, worry about having enough time, get bored on a long call, and . . . .

And, of course, that's the challenge. To live with attention in those circumstances, the ones, in Adrienne Rich's words, already sounding as we're born.

And of course, there's only one thing to do and, of course, Rumi told us what it is:

Come, come whoever you are.
Wanderer, idolater, lover of leaving,
Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times.
Come, yet again, come, come.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.

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