When Nothing Brings Peace...

When nothing brings peace to my mind and heart, Rumi does.

When I want to read and keep walking among my bookshelves and cannot allow myself to let go to any one of them, I pick a book on Rumi, of Rumi.

He is the light that feels so familiar, so gentle and true.

God bless those who are able to share and spread Mevlana’s light, who are able to stay true to his soul.  Coleman Barks is surely one of them.

This week’s words are from Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi:

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Having Nothing

Whatever comes, comes from a need,

a sore distress, a hurting want.

Mary’s pain made the baby Jesus

Her womb opened its lips

and spoke the Word.

Every part of you has a secret language.

Your hands and your feet say what you have done.

Every need brings in what’s needed.

Pain bears its cure like a child.

Having nothing produces provisions.

Ask a difficult question,

and the marvellous answer appears.

Build a ship, and there will be water

to float it. The tender-throated infant cries,

and milk drips from the mother’s breast.

Be thirsty for the ultimate water.

Then be ready for what will come

pouring from the spring.

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Mirror and Face

We are the mirror as well as the face in it.

We are tasting the taste this minute

of eternity.  We are pain and what cures pain, both.

We are the sweet cold water

and the jar that pours.

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The Breeze at Dawn

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 doorsill

                where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.

                Don’t go back to sleep.

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Majesty and Helplessness

Always check your inner state

with the lord of your heart.

Copper does not know it’s copper

until it is changing into gold.

Your loving does not know its majesty,

until it knows its helplessness.

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The Sacred Liquid

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?

Why would you refuse to give

this gift to anyone?

Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups.

They swim the huge fluid freedom.

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May the Divine lead us all to our true paths.  May we be surrounded by love and light.

Zeynep

Quote of the Week:

“Talents are common; everyone has them.  But rare is the courage to follow our talents where they lead.”

-          Anonymous

Affirmation of the Week:

From Louise L. Hay:  “I do something new – or at least different – every day.”