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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Act Great ~ FDNY Battalion 9 Memorial ~ 9/11/2011

FDNY_Battalion_9_9-11_MemorialFDNY BATTALION 9 MEMORIAL 9/11/2001

ACT GREAT

What is the key
To untie the knot of your mind’s suffering?

What
Is the esoteric secret
To slay the crazed one whom each of us
Did wed

And who can ruin
Our heart’s and eye’s exquisite tender
Landscape?

Hafiz has found
Two emerald words that
Restored
Me

That I now cling to as I would sacred
Tresses of my Beloved’s
Hair:

Act great.
My dear, always act great.

What is the key
To untie the knot of the mind’s suffering?

Benevolent thought, sound
And movement.

~ Hafiz ~

(The Gift – versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)

Photograph taken at a candlelight vigil outside the firehouse of Squad 18, NYFD, September 11, 2001.

Linked to Postcards from Paradise at Recuerda mi Corazon.

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