“My heart” My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you. Sit only under a tree that is full of blossoms. In the bazaar of herbs and potions don’t wander aimlessly, find the shop with a potion that is sweet. If you don’t have a measure people will rob you in no time….
Category: Rumi
SHORT MYSTICAL POEMS: “Beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing” by Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense. Rumi
SHORT MYSTIC POEMS: “What in your life is calling you?” by Rumi
What in your life is calling you? When all the noise is silenced, the meetings adjourned, the lists laid aside, and the wild iris blooms by itself in the dark forest, what still pulls on your soul? —Rumi
MYSTIC POEMS: “Inner Wakefulness” by Rumi
“Inner Wakefulness” This place is a dream only a sleeper considers it real then death comes like dawn and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief A man goes to sleep in the town where he has always lived and he dreams he’s living in another town in the dream he…
POEMS: “Be with those who help your Being” by Rumi (from a previous post)
Be with those who help your being.
Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “I smile like a flower not only with my lips” by Rumi
“I smile like a flower not only with my lips” I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being for I am alone with the King and have lost myself in him. At dawn your flame seized my heart but left behind my body. I will shout and…
POEMS: “Look at love” by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
“Look at love” Look at love how it tangles with the one fallen in love look at spirit how it fuses with earth giving it new life why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad pay attention to how things blend why talk about all the known and the unknown…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “Knowing”
Knowing What is this Exquisite Presence, Shining Radiant in The Heart, This Dissolution of duality, This Wellspring of Ecstasy, This Fullness and Completion, In which time, space, and myself, Dissolve in Formless Rapture? I don’t know. Is it not “Consciousness”? I don’t know. Is it not “God”? I don’t know. Is it not the “Soul”?…
POEMS: “where everything is music” by Rumi
Where everything is music Do not worry about saving these songs. And if one of our instruments breaks, it does not matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music. The strumming and the flute notes rise into the atmosphere, and even if the whole world’s harp should burn up, there will…
POEMS: “Be foolishly in love” by Rumi
“Be foolishly in love” A spirit that lives in this world and does not wear the shirt of love, such an existence is a deep disgrace. Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is. There is no way into presence except through a love exchange. If someone asks, But what is love? answer,…
Poem by Rumi: “Be empty of worrying”
“Be empty of worrying” Be empty of worrying Think of who created thought Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open Move outside the tangle of fear thinking Live in silence Flow down and down Into always widening Rings of being. Rumi
A quote from Rumi on “love”
“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi
