"Good news! good news! Lo! the spring is at hand!"

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"Good news! good news! Lo! the spring is at hand!" If the blossoms did not shine as bright helmets, How could the fruits display their globes? When the blossoms are shed the fruits come to a head, When the body is destroyed the soul lifts up its head. The fruit is the substance, the blossom only its form, Blossom the good news, and fruit the promised boon. When the blossoms fall the fruit appears, When the former vanish the fruit is tasted.

Source Masnavi, Book I, Story IX, §17 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, every beauty of creation announces: “Good news, the spring is at hand!”; the blossom is the promise and the fruit the promised boon, and when the blossom falls, the fruit ripens. Today, look at a recent loss or ending as a falling blossom, ask yourself what fruit may be ripening in its place, and give thanks for that coming fruit.

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