A reader notes the striking similarity between Francis’ words today and the legendary Persian poet and mystic, as masterfully translated by Coleman Barks and John Moyne:
Out Beyond Ideas
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
The Dish 