I wonder if life has meaning; I worry and fret over things I can’t control; and I often feel overcome with a longing for something that I cannot even name. For all of my strengths and gifts
A Human Life Alcohol, it has been around for ten thousand years. Some great things have come from it, but in some situations it has ruined people’s lives. Some may ask how something can have such opposite endings. Well the answer is that people don’t know moderation while consuming ...
Life isn’t easy, and the poet never pretended it was. But Rumi’s poems about life feel like a gentle hand on your shoulder, reminding you that even in chaos, there’s meaning. Much like today’s bestself-help books, his words explore life’s messiness—its beauty, its pain, its u...
for what I give away. Whatever Shams gave, that you can have from me. 3.Say Yes Quickly Forget your life. Say God is Great. Get up. You think you know what time it is. It’s time to pray You’ve carved so many little figurines, too many. Don’t knock on any random door like...
I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love. ~Rumi When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent ...
162. “Begratefulfor your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.”― Rumi 163. “You cannot hide love, love will get on its way to the heart ofsomeone you lovefar or near, it goes home ...
There are encounters that change everything. In the autumn of the year 1244 in the Anatolian city of Konya, a dervish named Shams Tabriz came crashing into the disciplined life of theologian Jelaluddin Rumi. Accounts vary. Some say that Shams, grabbing the bridle of Rumi’s mule, demanded...
Not to mention being hung over, hugging a porcelain bowl and hurling until it felt as if my insides would come gushing out of me, a very painful experience and low point in my life. The wedding at Cana was Jesus's first miracle, and to save the host the embracement he told the ...
gave, that you can have from me. 3. Say Yes Quickly Forget your life. Say God is Great. Get up. You think you know what time it is. It’s time to pray You’ve carved so many little figurines, too many. Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. ...
321. “This is love—to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” 322. “The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it. Don’t be a jar, full of water, whose...