What Are You Selling?

"God has concealed the sea and made the foam visible; He has concealed the Wind, and displayed it to you as dust...
Praise to You, O Master-weaver of Magic, who has made the dregs to seem to be pure wine, in order to turn people away from the Truth...
This world is a sorcerer, and we are the merchants who buy from it the measured moonbeams.
Yet when the world takes the money, which is your life, O slave, the money is gone, and there is no linen and your purse is empty...
Invoke God with the tongue of deed, for the tongue of words is weak...
If you desire spiritual poverty, that depends on companionship with the Teacher...
Soul receives from soul the knowledge thereof, not by way of book, nor from speech...
From love of having an admirer, you are looking intently in the hope of gaining eminence and leadership.
At every moment you want a purchaser cringing before you: what have you to sell? Nothing, nothing.
If your heart had any spiritual bread for breakfast, it would have been empty of desire for worldly purchasers...
You are fleeing from Love, because of a single humiliation: what do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred disdains and prides: Love is gained by means of a hundred allurements.
A human being resembles a tree, and the root is the covenant with God: the root must be cherished with all one's might."

Rumi (Vol. 5 1027-1166)

Commentary: Selling our words, is selling moonbeams. Apparently we need to go to a market where what counts are deeds, Love, and our capacity to cherish our most important covenant.