你真正的財富在更高等的層次 那是「愛的收成」 Your true wealth is on a much higher level. It is the harvest of love.
當你帶著愛工作時，你就會與自己、他人，與祂融為一體。
As one becomes a lover of life. Work become dance, poetry, creek music moving along. Impossible natural images of transformation appear. (not so impossible, the natural tasting) Something enters that spontaneously enjoys itself. Finding a purpose for acting is no longer the problem. The soul is here for its own joy.
Rumi doesn’t say it this way, but in the transformation Shams brought him he found himself walking inside a great poem, breathing music, feeling the hilarious vibrancy of layers of ocean-awareness that nourish each other.It’s as if he hears the big bang as everything flies into space, and at the same moment he is a solitary child who takes a burning stick from the campfire and writes fading infinity signs in the night air with sparks. Sideways figure-eight, his wondering laugh.
We die with wealth all round. I have a practice with my lover called Where were we？ We lie in bed in the dark and go over the sequence of the day we’ve had together. She says some; I pick it up; memory show-offs, the antiphony of moments and how it felt inside them, the tinier the better.
Sugar merchants, I have news: Joseph has arrived from Egypt with the essence of sweetness: a fruit cobbler that can save your soul! Spirit wine. And if there is something else you want, that came too. Khidr through an open window.Aphrodite singing ghazals. A sky with gold streaks across. A stick that finds water in a stone. Jesus sitting quietly near the animals. Night so peaceful.
This is enough was always true. We just haven’t seen it: the hoopoe already wears a tufted crown. Each ant is given its elegant belt at birth. This love we feel pours through us like giveaway song. The source of now is here！
①阿佛洛狄威，愛與美之女神。
②加扎勒，一種詩歌形式，通常由五個聯句組成。
— The Soul of Rumi
The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen. Let silence be the art you practice.
I think only when our clever brain 我想只有在我們聰明的腦袋
and our human heart work together 和我們人心和諧地共同運作時
in harmony can we achieve our full potential. 我們才能發揮我們最大的潛能
loving someone unconditionally and with your whole heart. If i could be half the person my dog is, i’d be twice the human I am.
Always take care of your dog. Even if your world falls apart, they will still be there for you.He was your friend, your partner ,your defender, your dog.You were his leader, his love his life.He was yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom
The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love. We miss our friend. Lovers’ tears are the true wealth. My friend John Seawright used to say that the real tragedy is when you don’t feel much of anything when someone dies. That lack of grieving, the feel of not to feel it, 23 is not heard much in Rumi.
I recently saw Fierce Grace, about Ram Dass’s life and particularly the stroke. The movie focuses on the use of the starkest tragedies, not just his, to open the heart and help us find the vital core of consciousness, the soul. My favorite part is Ram Dass near the end saying yumyumyumyumyum when he hears a young woman tell her dream of her lover who has been murdered in Colombia. Several months after her lover’s death she has the first dream in which he has appeared. She yells at him, “Where have you been!”
Ram Dass ecstatically tastes the truth of what the dead lover says. No sticky possessiveness, no hanging on to the past. Grief opens us to more love, and the new love builds with the former, and there’s miraculous expansion. It’s a rare movie that gives off the fragrance of enlightened love. This one does.
The minute I’m disappointed, I feel encouraged.
When I’m ruined, I’m healed.
When I’m quite and solid as the ground, then I talk
the low tones of thunder for everyone. — 魯米（Rumi）
