What is praised is one, so the praise is one too,
many jugs being poured into a huge basin.
All religions, all this singing, one song.

The differences are just illusion and vanity.
Sunlight looks slightly different
on this wall than it does on that wall
and a lot different on this other one, but it is still one light.
We have borrowed these clothes,
these time-and-space personalities,
from a light, and when we praise,
we pour them back in.

—Jelaluddin Rumi

This post is an excerpt from Prayers for Hard Times by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.