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One Drop

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…

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April Showers

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…

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Enough

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…

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Lending an Ear

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…