Rumi and Other Mystical Poets List

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Meister Eckhart -

All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only burros. And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting than physical labor. Once in a while a kind monk comes to her stable and brings a pear, but more than that, he looks into the burro's eyes and touches her ears and for a few seconds the burro is free and even seems to laugh, because love does that. Love frees. Meister Eckhart Love Poems from God Twelve... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Martin Luther King - Excerpt

WE MUST ALL LEARN TO LIVE TOGETHER AS BROTHERS OR WE WILL ALL PERISH TOGETHER AS FOOLS WE ARE TIED TOGETHER IN THE SINGLE GARMENT OF DESTING, CAUGHT IN AN INESCAPABLE NETWORK OF MUTUALITY. AND WHATEVER AFFECTS ONE DIRECTLY AFFECTS ALL INDEIRECTLY. FOR SOME STRANGE REASON I CAN NEVER BE WHAT I OUGHT TO BE UNTIL YOU ARE WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE. AND YOU CAN NEVER BE WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE UNTIL I AM WHAT I OUGHT TO BE. THIS IS THE WAY GOD'S UNIVERSE IS MADE ~ MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Sign in to see full entry.

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 see how unknown merges into the known why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last look at your heart and tongue one feels but deaf and dumb the other speaks in words and signs look at water and fire earth and wind... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Sioux Holy Man - Women

The Elders say the Native American women will lead the Healing among the tribes. We need to especially pray for our women, and ask the Creator to Bless them and give them strength. Inside them are the powers of love and strength given by the Moon and the Earth. When everyone else gives up, it is the woman who sings the Songs of Strength. She is the backbone of the people. So, to our women we say, sing your Songs of Strength; P ray for your special powers; K eep our people strong... --Village... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Hafiz - We are the guardians of His Beauty

We are the guardians of His Beauty We are the protector Of the Sun. There is only one reason We have followed God into this world: To encourage laughter, freedom, dance And love. Let a noble cry inside of you speak to me Saying, "Hafiz, Don't just sit there on the moon tonight Doing nothing - Help unfurl my Heart into The Friend's Mind, Help, Old Man, to heal my wounded wings!" We are the companions of His Beauty. We are the guardians Of Truth. Every man, plant and creature in Existence, Every... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Thich Nhat Hanh DO Not Say

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, in order to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that are alive. I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. ~Carl Jung Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. — e. e...

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. — e. e. cummings i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Rumi - One Transparent Sky

One Transparent Sky Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search. Wandering this world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy. The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I would worship someone who could do that. Barks, Coleman (2009-10-13). A Year with Rumi (Kindle Locations 4934-4942). Harper Collins, Inc.. Kindle Edition. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Helen Keller - Once I Knew

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller Sign in to see full entry.

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