Upside Down

"The Tailor, who is Worldly vanity, takes away the fabric of your life, bit by bit, with his scissors, which are the months.
You wish that your star might always jest, and that your happiness might continue forever.
You are very angry with its divisive aspects, and its disdain, and enmity and mischief;
You are very annoyed with its silence and inauspicious severity and its attempts to show hostility.
But consider that in spite of all the World's bitterness, you are mortally enamored of it and recklessly devoted to it.
Deem bitter tribulation to be a Divine mercy...
In the Way of the search for God, everything is upside down."

Rumi (Vol.6, 1720-1738)

Commentary: The life of the spirit sure seems to be upside down, inside out, and utterly confusing.