Be Easier With Your Plans

"I was wondering what sort of learning I should take up next, and my considerations became tedious and exhausting. I turned to the verse, Say The Enjoyment of this world is short-lived, which tells me I should take up whatever comes next without puzzling how it arrived or what the possible consequences might be. Accept the pleasures given, and don't try to keep them with you. That's addiction. The intellect's interests and pleasures are running water flowing from the east and from the west. Taste and let them go. When grief arrives, don't try to think of ways to prevent it happening again. It will. Sorrow masses overhead like cloud cover, rains down pain, breaks up, and moves on. And don't divide your sustenance into strict daily allotments. Be easier with planning your life, less rational. When you were sucking your mother's breast, did you count the holes in her nipples? Milk came as needed."

-Bahauddin