Find All the Barriers – Mar. 19, 2019
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi
Too Full – Mar. 18, 2019
The quotes this week are from the 13th century mystic poet Jalal al-Din Rumi. The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, (Harper One, 2004). Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about. -Rumi
Not for a Second – Feb. 15, 2019
For sixty years, I have been forgetful every moment,But not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.Today, I recognize that I am the guest,The one the mystics talk about.I play this living music for my Host. -Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks
This Marriage – Jan. 23, 2019
This marriage be wine with halvah, honey dissolving in milk. This marriage be the leaves and fruit of a date tree. This marriage be women laughing together for days on end. This marriage, a sign for us to study. This marriage, beauty. This marriage, a moon in a light-blue sky. This marriage, this silence fully […]
