Posts Tagged "rumi"
Paradox
Paradoxes: best wakefulness in sleep, wealth in having nothing, a pearl necklace fastened around an iron collar. Fire contained in boiling water. Revenues growing from funds flowing out. Giving is gainful employment. It brings in money. Taking time for ritual prayer and meditation saves time. Sweet fruit hide in leaves. Dung becomes food for the ground and generative power in...
Read MoreInspired pathways
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? Absorbed in this world, you’ve made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you’ve paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. Let yourself be...
Read MoreDon’t go back to sleep…
“The Breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the door sill Where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open Don’t go back to sleep.” ––Rumi And as another translation has it……. The Wind at dawn is the...
Read MoreTrading in Love’s Currency
Reason said, ” We live in a world of six directions – and that’s it! Love replied, “There is a path beyond, and I have traveled it many times.” Reason saw a market and set up shop, but love trades in another currency...
Read MoreTransactions with Beauty
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. Reason says, Nonsense. I have walked and measured the walls here. There are no places like that. Love says, There are. — Rumi, from “Secret Places,” *Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart* — as rendered by Coleman Barks Thank You – Robert Breszny for...
Read MoreThe Level of Words
God has said, “The images that come with human language do not correspond to me, but those who love words must use them to come near” Just remember, it’s like saying of the king, “He is not a weaver” Is that praise? Whatever such a statement is, words are on that level of God-knowing. -Rumi
Read MoreThree things….
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between these two, my life flows. —Nisargadata There are three things that are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third. —John Fitzgerald Kennedy, quoting from the Ramayana I am not a Christian, not Jew, not Hindu, not Buddhist. I...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
Focused Life force Energy
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