Welcome difficulty.
Learn the alchemy
True Human Beings know:
the moment you accept
what troubles you’ve been given,
the door opens.
Welcome difficulty as a familiar comrade.
Joke with torment brought by the friend.
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes
and jackets that serve to cover,
and then are taken off.
That undressing,
and the beautiful
naked body
underneath is the sweetness
that comes
after grief.
Rumi
http://www.spiritwalk.org/rumi.htm
All day I think about it,
then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and
What am I supposed to be doing?
My soul is from elsewhere,
I’m sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.
This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I will be completely sober.
I’m like a bird from another continent,
sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
but who is it now in my ear,
who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?
Who looks out with my eyes?
Rumi
http://www.spiritwalk.org/rumi.htm
Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don’t really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
Rumi
http://www.spiritsong.com/quotes
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
Rumi
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Penguin Books,
New York, London, etc. (2006)
Chapter 11, p. 125
ISBN: 978-0-14=303825-2 (pbk)
Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Rumi
http://www.spiritsong.com/quotes
THE GUEST HOUSE
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 cleaning you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
Because each has been sent
As a guide from beyond.
Jelaluddin Rumi
Translation by Coleman Barks
Harper San Francisco, 2004, ISBN 0-06-250959-4
Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.
Rumi
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See his book:
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