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Showing posts with label Rumi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rumi. Show all posts
Monday, January 9, 2023

We are but drops of the ocean.

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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I’m alrea...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

UUs beware of nihilistic narcissism.

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Be a connoisseur, and taste with caution. Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with...
Friday, January 6, 2023

The yin and yang, the good and bad, the blessing and the curse - both are parts of the whole

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Drunks fear the police, but the police are drunk too.  People in this town love them both like different chess pieces. Rumi, Jalal Al-Din; B...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Where did you come from and where are you going?

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All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

A year's journey with Rumi in 2023

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 This year, 2023, along with A Course In Miracles, UU A Way Of Life will be reading and reflecting on the ideas from the poetry of Rumi in t...

We are born and then we return.

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  The Qur’an says, “We are all returning.” Rumi, Jalal Al-Din; Barks, Coleman. The Essential Rumi - reissue (p. 1). HarperCollins. Kindle Ed...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Don't be afraid of the dark; fermentation is in process.

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Fermentation is one of the oldest symbols for human transformation. When grapes combine their juice and are closed up together for a time in...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Looking for the shining of the Friend

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"One day I was going along looking to see in people the shining of the Friend." Rumi as translated by Coleman Barks Every day I go...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Do you ever look behind the screen?

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"The puppet show looks charming, but go behind the screen and see who runs it." Rumi as translated by Coleman Barks
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

What have you sold your soul for?

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"Imagine a man selling his donkey to be with Jesus. Now imagine him selling Jesus to get a ride on a donkey. This does happen." Ru...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Daddy, where does art come from?

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In your light I learn how to love. In our beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you. but sometimes I do, a...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

A Just-finishing Candle

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A candle is made to become entirely flame. In that annihilating moment it has no shadow. It is nothing but a tongue of light describing a re...