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Month: November 2016

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

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 27, 2016

Fire leaned toward the ear of smoke and said secretly, "He can't do without me. Aloe wood really likes me. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Existence
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If… (11/20/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 20, 2016

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

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Nothingness, Self, The Journey
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The Water…Becomes the Rose (11/13/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 13, 2016

When You became the Sun, the light of that universe, You rose to a dead planet. You became life. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Heart, Life, Love, Suffering
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From Words to Ecstasy (11/6/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 6, 2016

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

Tags: Annihilation, Heart, Patience, Suffering, Truth, Union
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