November 2016 – Reading Rumi

We Are Due to Try Absence (11/27/16)

Fire leaned toward the ear of smoke and said secretly,

If you start the journey, they will open the road for you.

If you annihilate yourself, they will carry you to Absence.

If you humble yourself, they will grow you greater than the Universe.

If you become nothing, they will show you without you.

Rubailer, Page 205, Rubai #2

When You became the Sun, the light of that universe,

You rose to a dead planet.

The secret of Truth cannot be understood by asking questions,

gathering information, or spending all of your wealth and belongings.

If you haven’t cried for fifty years with bloody tears, if you haven’t burned your heart out,

you will never find the way from words to ecstasy.

Rubailer, Page 267, Rubai #2