I open to your majesty
As an orchard
Welcomes rain.
Rumi
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Come, come
wherever you are-
wanderer,worshiper, lover of leaving,
it doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come even if you have
broken your vow a thousand times.
Still come,
and yet again,
COME.
Rumi
Do not go anywhere without me.
Let nothing happen in the sky or on the ground,
in this world or that world,
without my being in its happening.
Rumi
Someone who goes with a half loaf of bread to a small place
that fits like a nest around him,
someone who wants no more,
who's not himself longed for by anyone else.
He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says,
LIVE.
Rumi
Rise up nimbly
and go on your strange journey
to the ocean of meanings.
Rumi
Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say:
anyone pulled from a source longs to go back.
At any gathering i am there, mingling
in the laughing and the grieving.
A friend to each, but few will hear
the secrets hidden within
the notes.No ears for that.
Body flowing out of spirit.
Spirit flowing from body.
No concealing that mixing.
Rumi
An eye is meant
to see things.
The soul is here
for its own joy.
Rumi
Soul receives
only from soul
its secrets,
not from any book of eloquence.
Nothing else,
nothing you
can ever hear
or ever do.
Rumi
Wanderer, stay hungry,
and honor your exile.
Wherever we came from
in the first place,
that's where
we're headed.
Rumi
These words are a fragrance
escaping from this garden.
Hear them whisper,
COME!
Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn
by the stronger pull
of what you really love.
Rumi
This night there are
no limits
to what may be given.
This is not a night
but a marriage.
Rumi
Thank you Inda for the added Rumi.
I am going to quote one of your older Rumi sayings:
Originally posted by Inda:
Let us fall in love again
and scatter gold dust all over the world.
Let us become a new spring
and feel the breeze drift in the heavens' scent.
Let us dress the earth in green,
and like the sap of a young tre e
let the grace from within sustain us.
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts
and let them light our path to Love.
The glance of Love is crystal clear
and we are blessed by its light.
~Rumi
Thank you Inda.
Like yoko, I will find one of your other Rumi poems.
"I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . .
I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening . . . .
I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
The rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance.
I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres,
The scale of creation, the rise and the fall.
I am what is and is not . . .
I am the soul in all."
- Rumi
I am adding another poem by Rumi:
The Meaning of Love
Both light and shadow
are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause;
it is the astrolabe of God's secrets.
Lover and Loving are inseparable
and timeless.
Although I may try to describe Love
when I experience it I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about Love
I am rendered helpless;
my pen breaks and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place
where Lover, Loving and Loved are one.
Every moment is made glorious
by the light of Love.
Rumi
Thank you for all your nice replies.
“Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.”
― Rumi
******
“When the rose is gone and the garden faded
you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil.
The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing.
If love withholds its strengthening care,
the lover is left like a bird without care,
the lover is left like a bird without wings.
How will I be awake and aware
if the light of the Beloved is absent?
Love wills that this Word be brought forth.”
― Rumi, Teachings of Rumi
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
Rumi
Rembrandt
http://www.brainyquote.com/quo...DG8RV072z9DZ17o__yeg
Birdsong brings relief
to my longing
I'm just as ecstatic as they are,
but with nothing to say!
Please universal soul, practice
some song or something through me!
From Essential Rumi
by Coleman Barks
This is a lovely thread, and Rumi is one of my most beloved poets of all time.
Originally posted by Inda:
Let us fall in love again
and scatter gold dust all over the world.
Let us become a new spring
and feel the breeze drift in the heavens' scent.
Let us dress the earth in green,
and like the sap of a young tre e
let the grace from within sustain us.
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts
and let them light our path to Love.
The glance of Love is crystal clear
and we are blessed by its light.
~Rumi
"I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . .
I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening . . . .
I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
The rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance.
I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres,
The scale of creation, the rise and the fall.
I am what is and is not . . .
I am the soul in all."
- Rumi
Rise up nimbly
and go on your strange journey
to the ocean of meanings.
Rumi
I love this thread. Thank you Inda for starting it, ans all the nice replies.
