Whatever love wants, it gets, not next year, NOW.
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
I swear by the one who never says tomorrow,
as the circle of the moon never agrees
sell installments of light
It gives all it has…
Archive for the ‘Rumi’ Category
If I had not shown you my nothingness, what would I be useful for?
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Rumi was in his sixties. He had amassed a reported 10,000 students. The monk prostrated himself before Rumi. Rumi returned the honor and prostrated himself before the priest. Aghast, the young man fell to the ground again. This went on 32 times…
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Excerpt from Soul, Heart, and Body One Morning
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass…
Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to.
Don’t try to see through the distance.
That’s not for human beings. Move within…
Prayer is an egg
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Pray the prayer that is the essence
of every ritual. God, I have no hope.
I am torn to shreds. You are my first,
my last and only refuge…
Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Last year’s miracles will soon be
forgotten. New creatures whirl in
from nonexistence, galaxies scattered
around their feet. Have you met them?
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Friday, June 26th, 2009
There’s a morning where presence comes over you,
and you sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape.
Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins
to dance. At that moment soul…
Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
No matter how fast you run,
your shadow more than keeps up.
Sometimes, it’s in front!
Only full, overhead sun
diminishes your shadow.
