TubeArt: Rumi's Spiritual Windowshoppers

Goo reads and comments on a poem by the Sufi poet, Rumi. She is sitting in front of one of her paintings, "Opening".

Spiritual Windowshoppers

These spiritual windowshoppers,
who idly ask, "How much is this?"
"Oh, I'm just looking."
They handle a hundred items
and put them down,
shadows with no capital.
What is spent is love,
and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly
in that moment,
in that shop.
Where did you go?
"Nowhere."
What did you have to eat?
"Nothing much."
Even if you don't know what you want,
buy something, be part of the exchanging flow.
Start a huge, foolish project,
like Noah.
It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.

Goo's note: Whoopsie! I made a couple of typos in the video.

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[LaurentziuRo]

Beautiful poem

[jantheempress]

Cool Goo, Namaste and Peace 2 U :)

[cholbert64]

Lovely! Lovely! Lovely! Oh, the poem was Lovely as well!

[TheArtistKnownAsGoo]

Thanks, Reid. Rumi's poetry is timeless and speaks to the core of our being. I love him also.