Why another poem?

Your Worth

You know the value of every article of merchandise,

but if you don’t know the value of your own soul,

it’s all foolishness.

You’ve come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars,

but you don’t know whether you yourself

are fortunate or lucky.

This, is the essence of all sciences –

That you should know who you will be

When the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Rumi

Mathnawi III, 2652 - 2654

Translated by Kabir Helminski and Camille Helminski

Excerpt from The Rumi Collection (Shambala Classics, 1998)