Thinks I find along the way
I
Have Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call Myself
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
a Buddhist, a Jew.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me
That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even a pure
Soul.
Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me
Of every concept and image
my mind has ever known.
From: ‘The Gift’
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
And you thought the Port-a-John line at the music festival was long…
This mind-blowing shot was part of a blog post by Steve McCurry called “Simple Act of Waiting,” and shows what the Indian government estimated to be seventy million Hindus waiting to bathe in the Ganges at the Kumbh Mela Festival in 2001.
McCurry starts his piece with a quote we can all appreciate and which makes this photo all the more compelling:
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.” Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns” via Waiting on an epic scale.
Bright, shiny objects! 