Last year I admired the many wines. This year I'm wandering inside the red world.

Last year I gazed at the fire. This year I'm a burnt kabob.

Thirst drove me to the water, where I drank the moon's reflection.

Now I am a lion staring up, totally lost in love with the moon itself.

Rumi

 

Make peace with the universe.

Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment a new beauty, and never any boredom.

The tree limbs will move like people dancing who suddenly know the mystical life.

The leaves snap their fingers like they're hearing music.

And they are!

Rumi

 

Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle

The Friend is invisible because he is inside of our sight.

He is the intelligent essence

of what is everywhere at once, seeing

Rumi

  

That principle (Spanda) should be examined with great care and reverence.

By its power our senses (though themselves inert and insentient) move toward their objects.

It takes pleasure in maintaining these experiences of the senses, and then withdraws into itself.

The natural freedom of this Spanda principle prevails everywhere and in all experiences.

Spanda Karikas I 6-7

 

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