My Joy

 

Andreas Cellarius

I would never have wandered across these endless countries.
You have poured out so much grace for me,
Done me so many favors, given me so many gifts --
I look everywhere for Your love --
Then suddenly I am filled with it.
O Captain of my Heart
Radiant Eye of Yearning in my breast,
I will never be free from You
As long as I live.
Be satisfied with me, Love,
And I am satisfied.

 - Rabia

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Poem of the Atoms - Rumi

 

O’ day, arise!

shine your light, the atoms are dancing.

Thanks to him the universe is dancing,

overcome with ecstasy, free from body and mind.

I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is leading them.

All the atoms in the air and in the desert are dancing,

puzzled and drunken to the ray of light,

they seem insane.

All these atoms are not so different than we are,

happy or miserable,

perplexed and bewildered

We are all beings in the ray of LIGHT from The Beloved,

Nothing can be said.

~Rumi

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If I Sit...

 

If I sit for 25 to 30 minutes, 

at least twice a week in silence, 

it is much easier to see and work 

with the associative I’s. 

It makes it feel like 

it is possible to win against them. 

~T

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People Usually Consider...

 

“People usually consider walking on water 

or in thin air a miracle. 

But I think the real miracle 

is not to walk either on water or in thin air, 

but to walk on earth. 

Every day we are engaged in a miracle 

which we don't even recognize: 

a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, 

the black, curious eyes of a child—

our own two eyes. 

All is a miracle.” 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

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"To Make Quiet Inside"...

 

Gwen John

"To make quiet inside". 

Gurdjieff isn't advising to stop associations, 

but to quiet them. 

So important. 

I feel the associations receding into the background. 

That leaves room for the higher to enter 

or the real part of me to come into being. 

It helps me to gain a foothold 

(or a least a toehold!) into this exercise. 

Associations can be likened to clouds 

moving across the sky. 

Both shift and change. 

Where am I? 

In what part of myself am I residing? 

~M

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