YES!!!!!

Saw the revival and had to walk in and witness the peace. Even without words, when I come into this place I feel welcome.

Needed to hear the silent meditaions within the breath filled warmth of this space, that has no walls.

I am amazed at the light reflecting on me
through the accepting eyes of those
who have noticed my entrance.
The stars are magnificant tonight
their light shines in many eyes!
How easy it is to recognize that light,
to feel and share it,
without the hinderance and limitations
of a self, confined.

I humbly bow

A Beautiful Walk Inside You

Through this blood veil
the lover sees a beautiful walk.

Reason says, There are only six
directions: north, east, south, west,
up and down. There is no way
out of those limits.

Love says, But I have
many times escaped.

Reason comes to a marketplace
and begins haggling prices.

Love wanders away with other
business to transact, something
to do with incomparable beauty.

There are secret things happening.
Hallaj listens to whispers
and walks off the speaker's
platform onto a scaffold.

Dreg drinkers have love perceptions
that reasonable men fiercely deny.

They say, We cannot go barefooted
in that courtyard. There is nothing
but thorns through there.

Love answers, The thorns are inside you.
Be silent, and pull what hurts
out of your loving's foot.

Then you will see gardens
with secluded rose bowers,
and they will be all inside you.

Shams is the sun
obscured by this cloud of words.

Maybe he will burn the overcast off
and let love clear and brighten.


Rumi.

ah! deep breath of enchanted air. Rumi-good!

Ah! LaMom - brings us a new generation. How sweet the voice that cries out the questions of life.

Listen well, LaMom, and know that some questions are answered simply by your presence.

I will listen for a while, it's been so long since I've heard the peacefull sleep of a baby.

Once I found peace and contentment in the words of Hafiz & Rumi, may you all find that peace and contentment I once had.

may you find peace and contentment again

The words with in this space in time, caress me in a warm and familiar embrace, and my tears fall as I search once again for the peace and contentment.

It is time that brings us healing, and with healing peace and contentment will come

Don't kill me Artsy... this is Rumi... but... we like it...

"Listen, O Drop, give yourself up without regret,
and in exchange, gain the Ocean.
Listen, O Drop, bestow upon yourself this honor
and in the arms of the Sea be secure.
Who, indeed, should be so fortunate,
an Ocean wooing a drop!"

-Rumi

The morning breeze tended to the rose,
A maid-in-waiting, as the flower grows.
If in the sun you have a shady refuge,
Seek the shade of a rose, and one who glows.


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You are the moon and the sun is your slave;
As your slave, it like you must behave.
It is only your luminosity and light
That light of sun and moon can save.


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Every flower its beauty bestows,
Your lips the dearest gems dispose.
May your lips nurture our souls
With the wine that every spirit knows.

Saw the thread pop up and was drawn inside.

I like this one very much:

"Listen, O Drop, give yourself up without regret,
and in exchange, gain the Ocean.
Listen, O Drop, bestow upon yourself this honor
and in the arms of the Sea be secure.
Who, indeed, should be so fortunate,
an Ocean wooing a drop!"

-Rumi

This is how I feel about humanity - but the drops fear cosumption, instead realizing the comfort and protection.

Thus, for me - the ultimate realization is to find that one other drop upon whose merging I can finally realize the comfort and protection without the fear of being consumed.

Redy,

Ahhhhh... and so did I... relate to that one so...

I shall slumber with the words shared here tonight floating about in my head and the music of Melissa Etheridge dancing in my ears..I know an odd combination but eh I'm odd

(((((Creativesoul))))) Thank you for sharing them

Now why would I do that for sharing such beauty here .... I love it!!! Thank you!

Please forgive if I seem presumptuous, but as eloquent as his words were, I can't help but ask, where is Christ in his message?

Here's a poem for thought;

When once I mourned a load of sin;
When conscience felt a wound within;
When all my works were thrown away;
When on my knees I knelt to pray,
Then, blissful hour, remembered well,
I learned Thy love, Immanuel.


When storms of sorrow toss my soul;
When waves of care around me roll;
When comforts sink, when joys shall flee;
When hopeless griefs shall gape for me,
One word the tempest's rage shall quell--
That word, Thy name, Immanuel.


When for the truth I suffer shame;
When foes pour scandal on my name;
When cruel taunts and jeers abound;
When "Bulls of Bashan" gird me round,
Secure within Thy tower I'll dwell--
That tower, Thy grace, Immanuel.


When hell enraged lifts up her roar;
When Satan stops my path before;
When fiends rejoice and wait my end;
When legioned hosts their arrows send,
Fear not, my soul, but hurl at hell
Thy battle-cry, Immanuel.


When down the hill of life I go;
When o'er my feet death's waters flow;
When in the deep'ning flood I sink;
When friends stand weeping on the brink,
I'll mingle with my last farewell
Thy lovely name, Immanuel.


When tears are banished from mine eye;
When fairer worlds than these are nigh;
When heaven shall fill my ravished sight;
When I shall bathe in sweet delight,
One joy all joys shall far excel,
To see Thy face, Immanuel.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon
(1834-1892)

Ahhh, my friend...

Not all preach Christ.... and in my humble opinion, most I have witnessed preach parts that I do not recognize...

God is everywhere my friend, whether you are a Christian or not...

Nice poem by the way...