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Month: September 2017

Your Qibla (9/24/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 24, 2017

Even if sugar envies your sweet smile, Even if sultans are your slaves and servants, if you make this rotten world your Qibla,* you are dead, and people are licking your corpse. *Qibla Direction of prayer. Rubailer, Page 371, Rubai #4

Tags: Death, Existence, Prayer
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Non-Existence Appeared Like Existence (9/17/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted September 17, 2017

When I desired Union, when I burned with fire, I went to Mount Sinai, like Moses.   There, I saw a sultan, the Sultan of sultans, a charmer who attracts the heart, who adds Soul to souls. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Existence, Exuberance, Nondualistic Perception, Union
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For All Troubles (9/10/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 10, 2017

For all troubles, there are remedies in Love. Love is a cloud which carries a hundred thousand lightnings. An ocean is formed by the Grace of Love inside of me, and the whole Universe is drowned into it. Rubailer, Page 370, Rubai #4

Tags: Love, Suffering
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There Are Rose Gardens for Lovers (9/3/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted September 3, 2017

There are rose gardens for lovers inside of those bloody fences. There are so many other businesses for lovers thanks to the absolute beauty of Love.   The mind says, "There are six dimensions to the world of existence. There is no road beyond those boundaries." Yet Love says, "Yes,...

Tags: Absence, Existence, Love, Lover, Mind(Reason), Suffering, The Rose Garden
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