klsiegel320 | Neat Quote

Very neat quotation, found at the very beginning of the Winter 2004 issue of Parabola (which I'm just now reading and let's not talk about how weird that is). As you may or may not know, each quarterly issue of Parabola focuses on a theme or topic and then examines that theme or topic as related to spirituality in a wide variety of ways, including poetry and interviews and so on; for Winter 2004, the theme was Friendship.

Stay together, friends
don't scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made
of being awake.
—Jelaluddin Rumi