Watch the man beating a rug. He is not mad at it. He wants to loosen the layers of dirt. Ego accumulations are not loosened with one swat. Continual work is necessary, disciplines. — Rumi We’re all on our journey of becoming. We’re all working to grow in our chosen work, to experience life more…
Does a drop stay still in the ocean? Move with the entirety and with the tiniest particular. Be the moisture in an oyster that helps to form one pearl.— Rumi We are all drops in the infinite ocean, part of the whole yet trying to make a splash. Why do we focus so much on…
We are the first double-leaf sprout, two inches out of the ground. We need rain, or we may not grow more than this. — Rumi The rain rolled in right on schedule, really, timed to mask the Aurora Borealis thoroughly and keep my mind from wandering north. Quietly scheming to drop everything and drive as…
The knight and the castle move jaggedly across the chessboard, but they are actually centered on the king. They circle. If love is your center, a ring gets put on your finger. Something inside the moth is made of fire. — Rumi, A Mystic and a Drunk We wrap our lives around certain customs and…
You try to accomplish things, to win, to reach goals. This is not the true situation. Put the whole world in ambition’s stomach, it will never be enough. — Rumi, I Met One Traveling I’ve been mentally stacking mountaintops, places to summit in my short time here. You tend to feel you’re falling behind when…
Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says this truth, You harvest what you sow. With life as short as a half-taken breath, do not plant anything but love. — Rumi, Every Tree I had lunch with a man of Ukrainian descent. He spoke with love for his old home, before he came to…
If a tree could fly off, it would not suffer the saw. The sun hurries all night to be back for morning. Salty water rises in the air, so the garden will be drenched with fresh rain. A drop leaves home, enters a certain shell, and becomes a pearl. Joseph turns from his weeping father,…
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoingand rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.— Rumi There’s no secret that the world feels more divisive, more aligned against the perceived slights, threats or opinions of another group. But then you read a…
Seek that wisdomthat will untie your knotSeek that paththat demands your whole beingLeave that which is not, but appearsto beSeek that which is, but isnot apparent– Rumi This entire blog is a work in progress. The output is the measure of the man, but the process itself is the progress. To write daily is a…
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want.Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forthacross the doorsillwhere the two worlds touch. The door is round and open.Don’t go back to sleep.” – Rumi The moon’s luminescence cut long, deep…