Courage

It goes without saying that what we are witnessing in Iran is a demonstration of enormous courage.



Very moving to see real courage challenge the cowardice of power and the corruption it reaps.

Would that liberal democracies of the West would show similar courage.

Liberty, like love, is easily taken for granted. But, like love, it is where real courage lies.

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, and angel
Or even 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.

-Hafiz, Sufi poet (1315-1390)