14 Mordad 1405
Quatrain 56 of 75
“And this I know: whether the one True Light,
Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,
One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught
Better than in the Temple lost outright.”
Reflection · Summer 1405
The one True Light in summer is at its most literal — the summer sun, the actual light, the source of everything. Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume — the summer doesn't care which interpretation is correct. The glimpse that the summer affords is direct and warm and exactly what it is.
Better than in the Temple lost outright — not because the Temple is wrong but because being lost is worse than glimpsing. A person who glimpses the Light in the Tavern of a summer afternoon has more of the Light than a person who seeks it correctly in the Temple and fails to find it. The glimpse in the present moment is always available.