Dear Fellow Students
Here is the first of four parts of a beautiful Rumi poem.
THE BASKET OF FRESH BREAD (1/4)
If you want to learn theory,
talk with theoreticians. That way is oral.
When you learn a craft, practice it.
that learning comes through the hands.
If you want dervishhood, spiritual poverty
and emptiness, you must be friends with a teacher.
Talking about it, reading books, and doing practices
don’t help. Soul receives from soul that knowing.
The mystery of absence
may be living in your pilgrim heart,
and yet the knowing of it may not yet be yours.
Wait for the illuminated openness,
as though your chest were filling with light,
as when God said,
Did we not expand you? (Qur’an 57:4)
~ RUMI
I wish you a day full of love and presence.
Ch
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