Rumi and Other Mystical Poets List

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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Ramadan Begins Today

Update Ramadan 2011: According to Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) Ramadan 1432 in North America, begins on the evening of Sunday, July 31, 2011, so that the first day of fasting would be Monday, August 1, 2011. Also According to Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) Eid-al-Fitr in North America is on Tuesday, August 30, 2011. Prayer Times For 6 Million Cities Worldwide See Prayer Times for 6,000,000 Cities Worldwide: http://www.holidays.net/ramadan/dates.htm RAMADAN KARIM During the blessed... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Hafiz - Change Rooms

Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness And giving Upon our intimate assembly. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence Lie beside an equator In your heart. Greet Yourself In your thousand other forms As you mount the hidden tide and... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 29, 2011

St Thomas Aquinas

From my breath I extract God. And my eye is a shop where I offer Him to the world. St. Thomas of Acquinas Love Poems From God Twelve Sacred Voices From East and West Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Rumi - What do you think will happen

IF YOU DISTANCE YOURSELF only for an hour from your endless thoughts what do you think will happen if you let yourself sink just like a fish into the ocean of our love what do you think will happen you are merely a piece of straw and we are that eternal amber if you leap forth from your lowly house to fuse with the amber what do you think will happen a hundred times you've promised yourself to depart from self-claim to be humble as earth only for once if you keep your word what do you think will... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Rumi - Restless -

RESTLESS now i go to the door now i go on the roof till i see your face i'll never know rest neighbors speak of me when you are away as meek or mad but when you return everything subsides this heart of mine tears itself apart and seeks no joy but only wants to know when you'll arrive but when you return and a wine-server is around i hold a cup fondle your hair and caress your face just come and see me letting go of my wish letting go of my pilgrimage keeping one wish in my heart making love to... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Mahatma Gandhi - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates. That informing power or spirit is God. And since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, God alone is. And is this power benevolent or malevolent? I see it as purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Lao Tzu - Balance

Those who know do not tell, Those who tell do not know. Not to set the tongue loose But to curb it, Not to have edges that catch, But to remain untangled Unblinded, Unconfused, Is to find Balance. And those who hold balance Beyond sway of love or hate, Beyond reach of profit or loss, Beyond care of praise or blame, Has obtained the highest post In the world. The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu Translated by Whitter Bynner Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Nasrudin Story

As the Mulla emerged from the mosque after prayers, a beggar sitting in the street solicited alms. The following conversation ensued: Mulla: ‘Are you extravagant? Beggar: ‘Yes, Mulla.’ Mulla: ‘Do you like sitting around drinking coffee and smoking?” Beggar: ‘Yes, Mulla’. Mulla: ‘I suppose you like to go to the baths every day?’ Beggar: ‘Yes.’ Mulla: ‘…and maybe amuse yourself, even by drinking with your friends?’ Beggar: ‘Yes, I like all these things.’ ‘Tut, tut,’ said the Mulla, and gave him a... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Rumi - Selflessness

Once you get hold of selflessness, You'll be dragged from your ego and freed from many traps. Come, return to the root of the root of your Self. Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Hafiz - Journey into Nothing

I have made the journey into Nothing. I have lit that lamp that Needs no oil. I have cried great streams Of emerald crystals On my scarred knees, begging love To never again let me hear from Any world The sound of my own name, even from the voice of divine thought Or see that pen you gave me, God, In the sun's or sky's skillful hand Writing Anything other than the word-- One. I have made the journey into Nothing. I have become that flame that needs No fuel. Beloved, Now what need is there to... Sign in to see full entry.

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