648. MY SOUL HAS TAUGHT ME

My soul has taught me
  How to fly.
I have taught my soul
  How to cry.

My soul has taught me
  How to unlearn many painful things.
I have taught my soul
  How to learn the world’s excruciating pangs
    And
  How to remain in breathless pain.
Sri Chinmoy, Transcendence-Perfection, Agni Press, New York, 1975