Showing posts with label Rumi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rumi. Show all posts

Saturday, June 20, 2015

about to leap...

~)(~
"I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? 
When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, 
to soar With angels blest."
~ Rumi
~)(~

"About To Leap"

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Sunday, May 3, 2015

jump into the ocean of your own being...

"You say the mind is blocking the Self.
Can the mind block the Self?
What watches blocked mind?
Is there anything that the mind is blocking that you need to see?
You are always reporting about what you are looking at, 
but the important things is: Where are you looking from?
And who are you looking as?
This is your moment to look from This as This itself."

The great Saint Frances of Assisi said:
"What we are looking for is where we are looking from."

Rumi also said: "I was knocking at a door. It opens.
I was knocking from inside."
 
"I am not here giving you 10 steps to follow.
I am pointing you to the stepless truth.
You must discover THAT inside yourself.
I point you to That, where you can never not be.
Something has brought you to this.
Here is your opportunity, an invitation
 to jump into in the ocean of your own being, 
which is here and now—your very Self.
Your part, our part from my view is to say inside your heart:
Yes, take me!
Yes, replace me with You. Merge my mind in You.
And this ‘You’ is who?
The Satguru within your own Self.
It is not a person. It is not an object.
Then you will know that this is your mighty existence!"
~ Mooji (via facebook)

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by BrownBearStudio on etsy

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Saturday, April 11, 2015

become timeless...

"Die in this Love!
If you die in this love, Your soul will be renewed.
  Don’t fear the death of that which is known
If you die to the temporal, You will become timeless."

~ Rumi

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Star Mandala Tapestry

tapestry available on etsy by TheGangasagar 

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

in the company of soul workers...

"Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth 
more than solace or applause, know each other right away.
Those who want something else 
turn and take a seat in another room.
Soul-makers find each others company."
~ Rumi 

Tree Of Life 

ACEO 

Teal Brown Bronze Metallic Watercolor

Monday, March 23, 2015

no imprint left behind...

"Good and bad, 
happy and sad,
 all thoughts 
vanish into emptiness
 like the imprint of a bird 
in the sky."
~ Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, 
"The Dharma in a Single Drawing"
(no footprint or imprint left behind)
"I have come 
to drag you out of yourself 
and take you in my heart. 
I have come
 to bring out the beauty
 you never knew you had 
and lift you like a prayer 
to the sky."

~ Rumi

Friday, February 6, 2015

my soul is from elsewhere...

“My soul is from elsewhere, 
I'm sure of that, 
and I intend to end up there.”
~ Rumi
"Winter Morn"

Thursday, February 5, 2015

silence is the language of God...

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
 

~ Rumi

quote from A Course in Miracles

 

Sunday, January 25, 2015

don't walk around with an empty bucket...

"Light must come from inside. You
cannot ask the darkness to leave;
you must turn on the light."
~ Sogyal Rinpoche

~)(~

"There is a fountain inside you.
Don't walk around with an empty bucket."
~ Rumi

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"woman in quiet contemplation"

artwork by CaryeVDPMahoney on etsy 

 

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Ave 2014...

"Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday.
Today, it is needed to say new things."
~ Rumi
Best Wishes (art card)

Friday, December 19, 2014

yesterday is gone...live now...

"It's good to leave each day behind
Like flowing water, free of sadness,
Yesterday is gone and its tale told,
Today new seeds are growing."
~ Rumi

"Live Here Now" - watercolor art

available by SIGnatureShop on etsy


Wednesday, August 27, 2014

in the house of Love be the instrument..

~ Rumi

"In the house of lovers,
the music never stops,
the walls are made of songs
and the floor dances."

~o~

 

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

close the language-door and open the love-window...

"At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window."
~ Rumi

Dream Moon art print

 available at StellarArtShop on etsy

Thursday, May 8, 2014

knowledge vs. freedom inquiries...

What a relief to be empty!
Then God can live your life.

~ Rumi ~

 _()_

"Seeker of Truth, if you should get the opportunity to meet an awakened Being and ask one question only, I would advise you to ask a freedom question and not merely a knowledge question. Knowledge questions are mostly asked from the position of a personal self and the answers tends to develop one's mind and often one's ego also; they rarely take you directly to the source.
A freedom question is fresh and risky, and the answer could, profoundly, change something today. It could completely reshape your perspective of life and who you take yourself to be as the one ‘living' it. The answer, received inside, could bring about a transformation from caterpillar to butterfly.
What could be a good example of a freedom question?
It could be:
"Without great pain or years of practice, is it possible to realise my eternal nature, and if it is, can you help me discover it today?"
If asked with a sincere wish to be liberated in this life-time, a freedom question will lead you to one whose light and presence will stir something deep inside your being.
They will not let your mind escape or waste time with any cleverness or distractions, but will steadily guide and walk with you till you are again absorbed in your true Heart - the Supreme Self."
~ Mooji
May 2014
www.mooji.org

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"Investigate what the mind is and it will disappear,
There is no such thing as ‘mind’ apart from ‘thought.’
There is no use removing doubts.
If we clear one doubt another arises,
and there will be no end of doubts.
All doubts will cease only when the doubter and his source have been found.

Seek for the source of the doubter,
and you will find that he is really non-existent.
Doubter ceasing, doubts will cease."
~ Ramana Maharshi ~

_()_

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

source is eternal...

''Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.
The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.
Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade,
But do not be disheartened,
The source they come from is eternal, growing,
Branching out, giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?
The source is within you
And this whole world is springing up from it."
~Rumi

Sunday, May 4, 2014

rumi, and the soul within...

"I am not this hair,
I am not this skin,
I am the soul that lives within."
~ Rumi

"Doing as others told me, I was Blind.
Coming when others called me, I was Lost.
then I left everyone, myself as well.
then I found Everyone, Myself as well."
~ Rumi

 "Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."
~ Rumi

 "Enlightenment is an accident, Meditation makes you accident prone".
  ~Baker Roshi

Saturday, May 3, 2014

be an empty page...

“Be an empty page, untouched by words.”
Rumi

Monday, March 3, 2014

light will split you open...

Even the most exalted states and most exceptional spiritual accomplishments 
are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, 
if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.
~ Jack Kornfield

~0~

 The awareness that you are
will open your eyes to what you are.
It is all very simple.
~ Nisargadatta

~0~

Light Will someday split you Open
Even if your life is now a cage.

Little by little, You will turn into stars.

Little by little, You will turn into
The whole Sweet, Amorous Universe.

Love will surely burst you Wide Open
Into an unfettered, booming New Galaxy...

✣ Rumi