Nothing But Lightning

"All selfish pleasures are a deceit and fraud: round the lightning flash is a wall of darkness.
The lightning is but a brief gleam, false and fleeting, surrounded by darkness, and your way is long.
By its light you can neither read a letter, nor ride to your destination.
But, as a penalty for being enthralled by the lightening, the beams of the sunrise withdraw themselves from you.
Mile after mile, through the night, the lightning's deception leads you on, without a guide in a dark wilderness.
Now, you fall off a mountain, now, into a river; now you wander in this direction, now in that.
O seeker of worldly estate, you will never find the guide, and if you do find him, you will avert your face from him.
Yes, you have journeyed far, but only in opinion, as unsubstantial as lightning:
come, make a tenth part of that journey for the sake of Divine inspiration, as glorious as the sunrise.
By a lightning flash, you have been blind to a rising sun."

Rumi (Vol.6, 4094-4105)

Commentary: What if, even just for today, we gave a tithe (one tenth of our attention) to God? Turning away from the bright flashes of lightning, that leave us in the dark, and turning our faces toward the sun, towards God's love?