Posts Tagged "rumi"
AWAKE
Reading at Koloa and Anara practices 1/26/2012 “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...
Read MoreSilk Worm
Reading at Anara Practice – 1/5 /2011 I stood before a silk worm one day And that night my heart said to me, “I can do things like that, I can spin skies, I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people; I can be soft against a crying face, I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet Throughout the earth My sacks filled With the Sacred’ And I replied...
Read MoreThree things….
Readings at Anara and Koloa practices… 01/12/2012 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...
Read MoreThe Guest House
Reading at Anara Spa practice 11/17/2011 This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new...
Read MoreWhich is Worth More?
You're not Alone...One Mind one Heart by Linaji Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or the power over an entire nation? A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given to you. —Jallal al-Din...
Read MoreAll Paths, No paths
Reading at Anara practice 7/04/2011 Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the east or the west, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My...
Read MoreJoseph and the Mirror
Rumi A friend of Joseph’s came to visit him after returning from a long journey. “What present have you brought me?” Joseph asked What could I bring you,” the friend replied that you don’t already have??” But” he added, because you are so beautiful, and nothing exists in all the world more beautiful than you, I have brought you a mirror, so you can know the joy at every moment of...
Read MoreOn a Day When the Wind is Perfect
r and p sailboat by Linaji Reading at Koloa practice 1/12/2011 On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. My eyes are like the sun that makes promises; the promise of life that it always keeps each morning. The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere, both caress the earth with great tenderness. There is a...
Read MoreDoing from the Soul
Reading from Koloa Practice 01/03/2011 “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” “Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.” “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” “The universe...
Read MoreGems # 2
Readings at our various locations on the island Hiding in this cage of visible matter Is the invisible Life Bird Pay attention to her She is singing Your song —Kabir I am not a Christian, not Jew, not Hindu, not Buddhist. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one, and that one called two and know, first, last, ourter, inner, only that breath breathing, human...
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