Monday, February 8, 2010

Always Open

"Through God's bounty the door of repentance is open.
From the quarter of the West, a door of repentance is open to humanity until the Resurrection.
Til the sun lifts up and rises from the West, that door is open: do not avert your face from it.
By the mercy of God, Paradise has eight doors: one of these eight is the door of repentance, O son. O daughter.
All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut; yet never is the door of repentance anything but open.
Come seize the opportunity: the door is open."

Rumi (Vol.4, 2503-2508)

Commentary: If that door is always open, I wonder why we hesitate to enter?