Be with those who help your being.
Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Category: Rumi
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
POEMS: “The Dancing Cry Of The Soul” by Rumi
The Dancing Cry Of The Soul Love is the dancing cry of the soul, calling the body to worship Like a shining whirlpool, or a spinning mayfly So is love among the skies. I leap across the mountaintops, madly singing the song of all songs I float through the ether, intoxicated, thrilled I think only…
POEMS: “Navigating the sea of Life” (Spirituality) by Rumi
The boundaries of my being
had disappeared in the sea.
MICRO-POEMS: “The soul of the garden” by Rumi
“The soul of the garden” Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness. Rumi MATHNAWI II, 1095–96
