A World of Prayer – June 14, 2021
Lord, the air smells good today, straight from the mysterieswithin the inner courts of God.A grace like new clothes thrownacross the garden, free medicine for everybody.The trees in their prayer, the birds in praise,the first blue violets kneeling.Whatever came from Being is caught up in being, drunkenlyforgetting the way back. –Rumi, in Earth Prayers From […]
Be – May 18, 2021
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” —Rumi
Beyond Ideas – Sep. 22, 2020
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing 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. –Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, 13th century
Quietness – Feb. 17, 2020
Inside this new love, die.Your way begins on the other side.Become the sky.Take an axe to the prison wall.Escape.Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.Do it now.You are covered with thick cloud. Slide out the side. Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest signthat you have died. Your old life was a frantic runningfrom silence. The […]
