Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening,
kissing his feet, resistance broken, tears all night.

If we could reach God through immersion in water,
I would have asked to be born a fish in this life.
If we could reach God through nothing but berries and wild nuts
then surely the saints would have been monkeys when they came from the womb!
If we could reach God by munching lettuce and dry leaves
then the goats would surely get to the Holy One before us!

If the worship of stone statues could brings us all the way,
I would have adored a granite mountain years ago.

Mirabai says, "The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God."

-Mirabai