Odilon Redon - si Rumi, despre vesnicul Huuu

Un panou faurit de Odilon Redon, aflat acum la Rijksmuseum. Micile vietati care se misca printre flori, frunze, pietris. Oricine ii apartine Domnului, Domnul ii apartine. Se spune ca Mohamed ar fi spus. Micile vietati, rasufland usor si neregulat, suntem noi, fiinte fragile si tematoare, parca mereu gata sa ne evaporam, iesiti din vesnicul Huuu.

Muhammed is said to have said,

Whoever belongs to God, God belongs to.

Our weak, uneven breathings,

these dissolving personalities,

were breathed out by the eternal

Huuuuuuuu, that never changes!

A drop of water constantly fears

that it may evaporate into the air,

or be absorbed by the ground.

It doesn't want to be used up

in those ways, but when it lets go

and falls into the ocean it came from,

it finds protection from the other deaths.

Its droplet form is gone,

but its watery essence has become

vast and inviolable.

Listen to me, friends, because you

are a drop, and you can honor yourselves

in this way. What could be luckier

than to have the ocean come

to court the drop?

For God's sake, don't postpone your yes!

Give up and become the giver.

(Rumi)