If you Want What Visible Reality

By Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

If you want what visible reality

can give, you're an employee.

If you want the unseen world,

you're not living your truth.

Both wishes are foolish,

but you'll be forgiven for forgetting

that what you really want is

love's confusing joy.

Excerpt from the translation of Rumi by Coleman Barks.