Come to the orchard in spring There is light and wine And Sweethearts In the pomegranite flowers If you do not come These do not matter It you do come These do not matter-- Jelaluddin Rumi
Keep walking Though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within but don't move The way that fear makes you move.-- Jelaluddin RumiView All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment
Be fair. Admit that love has in it all the righteousness that we need. Confess that you're willing to forget and be numb enough to call some low desire a holy name. Live as evidence that there is a way from wanting to longing.-- Jelaluddin Rumi
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.-- Jelaluddin Rumi
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, here's the joyful face you've been longing to see. Your hand opens and closes, and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contraction and expansion, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.-- Jelaluddin Rumi
Think that you are gliding out from the face of a cliff like an eagle. Think that you are walking like a tiger walks by himself in the forest. You're most handsome when you're searching for food. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is just a voice, the other just a color.-- Jelaluddin Rumi
There is a channel between voice and presence, A way where information flows. In disciplined silence the channel opens. With wandering talk, it closes.-- Jelaluddin Rumi