if you want to love, do not hide from yourself...

"If you want the moon, Do not hide from the night,
 If you want a rose, Do not run away from the thorns,
If you want to love, Do not hide from yourself."
~ Rumi

Photo via: Laura in Stitches

 

 (photo found on facebook)

let the Light shine out...

"The wound is the place where the Light enters." ~ Rumi

I see this Rumi quote frequently. I always feel that I have to remind myself that the Light enters from within - not from without. (The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.) Thinking of the Light coming from within is empowering. From without, it means being dependent/co-dependent upon someone or something outside, and in my experience outside support can vanish in the blink of an eye. Or there may be too many undesirable strings attached.
~)(~

photo by me: Siesta Key Beach, Sarasota Florida

listen to the wordless Voice...

~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~

Joy in Your Spaces

(Joy in Your Spaces can be located on facebook)

Driftwood Coral buckwheat hull Zafu

available by etsyseller ZafuChi

a house of LOVE, with no limits...

Natural Linen Zafu

"I swear, since seeing Your face,
the whole world is fraud and fantasy
The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf
or blossom. The distracted birds
can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.

A house of love with no limits,
a presence more beautiful than venus 

or the moon,
a beauty whose image 

close-up of embroidery detail

fills the mirror of the heart."

- Rumi

"The main point to grasp is that you have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and that you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free."
Nisargadatta, I Am That, Chapter 44

"By choosing Love, and letting Love choose for us, we end the internal battle of good vs evil."

(Posted by Sarah Nolt, owner of zafuChi, a small business in the U.S. that makes and sells zafu meditation cushions, bolster pillows and floor pillows.)

law of attraction - by Rumi...

Sit. Let Love come to you.

Rumi:
"When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me, and without pain.
From this I understand that
what I want also wants me,
is looking for me and attracting me.
There is a great secret here
for anyone who can grasp it."

Pink Meditation Cushion - Zafu

become a rose again...

~O~

"If you have become ash,
Then wait till you become a rose again.
And do not remember how often you have become ash
But how often you were reborn in ashes to a new rose."
~ Rumi

~O~

(photo:Louis Philippe Rose from my garden)