Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul for Sunday, October 1, 2006

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Sunday, October 1, 2006

This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness: Rumi

This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence: This place made from our love for that emptiness! Yet somehow comes emptiness, this existence goes. Praise to that happening, over and over! For years I pulled my own existence out of emptiness. Then one swoop, one swing of the arm, that work is over. Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting. The here-and-now mountain is a tiny... Sign in to see full entry.

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