Rumi and Other Mystical Poets List

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Saturday, May 5, 2018

Like The Morning Breeze

Like The Morning Breeze Like the morning breeze, if you bring to the morning good deeds, The rose of our desire will open and bloom. Go forward, and make advances down this road of love; In forward motion, the pain is great. To beg at the door of the Winehouse is a wonderful alchemy. If you practice this, soon you will be converting dust into gold. O heart, if only once you experience the light of purity, Like a laughing candle, you can abandon the life you live in your head. But if you are... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Hafiz - How Does It Feel to Be a Man

Once a young woman asked me, "How does it feel to be a man?" And I replied, "My dear, I am not so sure." Then she said, "Well, aren't you a man?" And this time I replied, "I view gender As a beautiful animal That people often take for a walk on a leash And might enter in some odd contest To try to win strange prizes. My dear, A better question for Hafiz Would have been, 'How does it feel to be a heart?' And I find my heart Infinite And Everywhere!" I Heard God Laughing Renderings of Hafiz By... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Rumi -Theater of Freedom

The Theater Of Freedom In my divine studio What I have been working on is this: Painting the Truth, Revealing A more realistic picture of God, Tearing down the cruel walls That separate you From the tenderness Of fire. Someone must be withholding The crucial lines In all those stories you have heard of our Friend, For there is still too much fear And pallor upon your cheeks, And I rarely see you In the marvelous Theater of Freedom. Hafiz knows You could not describe him Even if we sat side by... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Rumi - Where am I going?

Where am I going on this glorious journey? To your house, of course. Where Am I Going? RUMI Love Poems from God Twelve Sacred Voices from East and West Translated by Daniel Ladinsky Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 30, 2012

Rumi The Two Worlds

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, Sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

A man born blind can easily deny the magnificence of a vast landscape. He can easily deny all the wonders that he cannot touch, smell, taste, or hear. But one day the wind will show its kindness and remove the tiny patches that cover your eyes, and you will see God more clearly than you have ever seen yourself. Meister Eckhart Love Poems From God Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Hafiz - Falling on a Soft Mat

More attentive than any lover or parent is really God to us, but our gauge of judgment is impaired by the world’s values, and our bodies’ often dominance over our spirit realm. A young child first learning to walk and very likely to fall may be allowed to do so by a wise guardian or teacher if there is a soft mat beneath its body that will cushion it from harm. There is a soft rug you can place around others it is forgiveness, it is charity. We are all still learning to walk—and fly—in ways; kin... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Hafiz - A Singing Cleaning Woman

A Singing Cleaning Woman A leaf says, "Sweethearts - don't pick me, For I am busy doing God's work. I am lowering my veins and roots Like ropes With buckets tied to them Into the earth's deep Lake. I am drawing water That I offer like a rose to The sky. I am a singing cleaning woman Dusting all the shelves in The air With my elegant green Rags. I have a heart. I can know happiness like You." ("The Subject Tonight Is Love" - versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky) Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Rumi - OK, I'll Do It

Okay, I will do it: sing longer songs tonight because sometimes you're just so damn hard to please, and I guess I am still courting you, trying to get into your soul's knickers. What makes you like that--grouchy around the edges? What classrooms have you lounged in; what nonsense have you traded your gold for? How can you look so needy-- God is growing in fields you own. He hangs from trees you pass every day. He is disguised as that peach and pine cone. Every sound I hear--He made it. I have... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, October 12, 2012

"When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter."

"When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him/her,you will see yourself. As you treat him/her, you will treat yourself As you think of him/her, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him/her, you will find yourself or lose yourself. -- Course in Miracles // Sign in to see full entry.

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