Getting doors open

one after the other

is the essence of Prayer.

Every door is a passage,

another boundary we have

to go beyond.

We squeeze ourselves through, 

and then we go. 

Farther.

After all,

the purpose of the Prayer

is not to stand and bow 

all day long.

The purpose is to possess 

continuously

that fragrant state

which appears to you

in Prayer.

Asleep or awake,

writing or reading, 

in every state

never be empty

of Remembrance.

Be rather one of those moving 

constantly

within Prayer.

Rumi