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How Can There Be an Ultimate End in Death, When All of Nature is Cyclic?

3/26/2016

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How can there be an end
when the sun sets or
the moon goes down?

It looks like the end;
It seems like a sunset;
But in reality it is a dawn . . .
Have you ever seen

a seed fallen to earth
not rise with a new life?
Why should you doubt the rise

of a seed named “human”?
Have you ever seen

a bucket lowered into a well
coming back empty?
Why lament for a soul
when it can come back
like Joseph from the well?


Jelaluddin Rumi

Photo: Pasqueflower emerging through the snow, Lory State Park, CO, March 25, 2016
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    Stephen Hatch, M.A. is a spiritual teacher and photographer from Fort Collins, Colorado.  His approach is contemplative, inter-spiritual, and Earth-based.

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