There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
Rumi
Rumi
the hardest journey
And you?
When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
Rumi
be as the ground is
The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty.
Try to be more like the ground.
Rumi
the cleansing value of sorrow
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
Rumi
living life
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
Rumi
When we find a contribution, a toil, a role that aligns with why we were born into this world, then life becomes living.
the words within
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth
Rumi
you cannot dwell where I dwell
image by: Graham Fink
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me,
for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be.Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself,
for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see
Rumi
life’s guest house
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…
Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
Each thought, each feeling that arrives in your awareness, greet it, thank it for its wisdom, its desire to speak to you. Each is a messenger. Each a mentor.
Do not turn them away or shun them. Do not hasten to compost them. Be curious about their story. Enquire of their intent; how they seek to serve you. Each has a purpose, each a meaning. We’re usually just too busy to notice. Too dismissive of this errant thought, this unwelcome sensation in the body, this repeating voice.
They seek to help us grow.
curiosity didn’t kill anything
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment
Rumi
Our ability to not know, to be curious, is our energy. It breeds learning, growth, relationships, love, movement, dreams, invention, self discovery…
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