The soul, like the moon... 

"The soul, like the moon,

is new, and always new again.

And I have seen the ocean

continuously creating.

Since I scoured my mind

and my body, I too, Lalla,

am new, each moment new.

My teacher told me one thing,

Live in the soul.

When that was so,

I began to go naked,

and dance."

Lal Ded (Lalla) (14th Century?)

(translated by Coleman Barks)

Voices of Light

1999, edited by Aliki Barnstone

Shambhala Publications, Inc.