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Tag: Annihilation

If You Really Want to Know (5/22/2022)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted May 22, 2022

If you really want to know the essence of insanity on the way of Love, ask me. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Fire, Insanity, Suffering, The Journey
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So Sweet (3/20/2022)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted March 20, 2022

You appear every day from that place and carry water to the thirsty ones.   Every morning You offer light to the Earth. You are the Soul to the soul of the Sun. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Divine_Wine, Love, Soul, The Journey
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Even If You Can’t See It (1/23/2022)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 23, 2022

The one to whom the secret of Love appears loses his being, becomes annihilated in the Beloved. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Fire, Suffering, The Journey
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Burn That Thing (12/19/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted December 19, 2021

O my Beloved, accept me. Take my soul. Let me pass through both worlds. If I settle down with anything other than You, throw me into the fire and burn that thing. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 353. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx. pub. 5/2022), Rubai 761,...

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Existence, Fire, Self, Soul
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About Death (9/19/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 19, 2021

Your soul is a guest of your body for only a couple of days. Yet, you have become so attached to this Earth that you don’t want to listen when I talk about death. Your soul is longing for that mansion – that “death before death.”* Unfortunately, your body’s donkey...

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Self, Soul
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This is Expected of You (9/12/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted September 12, 2021

The mind is a roadblock on the journey, O son. The road is wide open. Untie this bond. Tear it, O son. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Heart, Love, Mind(Reason), Silence, Soul, Suffering, The Journey
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Where You Used to Be (8/1/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 1, 2021

O heart, go. Go. Turn to blood like you used to be. Go to the valley and plain where you used to be. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Glory, Heart, The Journey
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Because You Were Cooked (7/18/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted July 18, 2021

O Beloved, You flew away from this narrow cage. You freed Yourself from this dungeon of robbers and pickpockets.   You cleaned the dirt and dust from the surface of the mirror. You saw whatever was in that mirror.   You had been hearing, here and there, some news. You...

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Divine_Wine, Resurrection
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Because of My Longing (6/27/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 27, 2021

Once this Love arrived, all other loves disappeared. Because of my longing for You, I was burned and turned into ashes. My ashes scattered and disappeared. Then, they came back, forming thousands of shapes again. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 220. A Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translation, Volume 1 (pub....

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Existence, Fire, Longing, Love
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Be Silent. I Will Read (6/20/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 20, 2021

If you fall in Love with me, I will make you utterly confused. Don't construct anything, because in the end, I will destroy you. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Love, Silence
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I was Amazed (6/13/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 13, 2021

When I was drinking wine in Your tavern one day, I ripped off this cloak of mine, this cloak made of clay. In Your now-ruined tavern, I saw the harmony in its workings and in the workings of the universe. There was such balance of creation and destruction. I was amazed....

Tags: Annihilation, Divine_Wine, Drunk, Ecstasy, The Universe
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From Existence to Nothingness (5/30/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted May 30, 2021

I have twisted and wriggled like a snake because of someone's charms. I have been curled up like the hair of the Beloved. By God, I don't know what kind of twist that is. All I know is that suffering annihilates me, carrying me from existence to Nothingness. Rubailer (2016),...

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Existence, Suffering
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Empty Words (5/16/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted May 16, 2021

On the way to Love, each lover must either annihilate himself or give up his life in death. Some say, “Love’s goal is to drink water from the Fountain of Life.” These are just empty words, O lover, just empty words. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #3, page 226. A Rubaiyat of...

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Existence, Love, Nondualistic Perception
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I Am Your Remedy (5/2/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted May 2, 2021

Endure your pain quietly. I am your remedy. Don’t look at anyone except Me, because I am your true friend. Even if I kill you, don’t say, “I have been killed.” Instead, be grateful, because I am the compensation for your life. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #3, page 307 A Rubaiyat...

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Suffering, Thanks
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Knocking (4/18/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted April 18, 2021

Today, I am on the outside of a circle, as if I am standing on the outside of a door. I have become friends with the door knocker, and I am holding onto it, knocking fearlessly. Once I become a true companion of vision, I will get through that door....

Tags: Annihilation, The Journey, The Lion, Truth
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When I Look (3/21/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted March 21, 2021

How long will I be satisfied by the shapes and appearances of time? How long will I watch and smell of existence? I am tired of the materials and creatures of the present. It is time to see that Beauty of Beauties. But, when I look at Him, I see...

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Existence, Suffering
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Fire (3/14/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted March 14, 2021

The Beloved's heart is burning for me. Its flame has turned the Earth's harvest into ashes.   A candle put a fire in the heart of this slave, such a candle that it has made a soul of iron and stone melt like a candle. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Existence, Fire, Heart, Sun
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When I Suffer (2/21/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted February 21, 2021

I rejoice when I suffer. I flourish when I am ruined. I look quiet and silent like the earth, but my wailing reaches the sky like thunder. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 294.

Tags: Annihilation, Suffering, The Journey
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I Will Rise (2/14/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 14, 2021

I am not the kind of lion which fights with the enemy. I fight with my self. That's enough for me.   I have become dirt for Love's feet, but am settled in the knowledge that I will rise from the ground like a rose, like an iris. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Love, Resurrection, Self, Silence
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A Shining Star Has Appeared (2/7/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted February 7, 2021

I have been dissolved in the sea of purity like salt. There is no belief, no heresy left in me. Neither certainty nor doubt remains. A shining star has appeared in my heart. Even the seven levels of sky have disappeared into that star. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 285.

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Ecstasy, Heart
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The Light Calling Out (1/3/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 3, 2021

I don't know how I became annihilated from that wine. I don't know where I am because of the beauty of placelessness.   Once I was at the bottom of the sea. but then I rose like the sun. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Divine_Wine, Nondualistic Perception, Nothingness, Self
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From the Breath of Love (12/13/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 13, 2020

I come slowly like water under straw and carry away the mountain as if it were a piece of straw.   I drip from the gutter, drop by drop. But, like a flood, I pick up and carry away hundreds of palaces. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Divine_Wine, Love's Sugar
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I was Amazed (10/11/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted October 11, 2020

When I was drinking wine in Your tavern one day, I started ripping off this cloak of mine, this cloak made of clay. In Your tavern, I saw the harmony in its workings and in the workings of the Universe. There was such a balance of creation and destruction. I...

Tags: Annihilation, Drunk, Dualistic Perception, Mirror
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His Question (8/30/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted August 30, 2020

Yesterday, this slave was the moon of soul. In his search for proofs and explanations, he asked a difficult question. Although no answer came, his question just disappeared. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 205.

Tags: Annihilation, Mind(Reason)
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Only a Fool Says… (8/16/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted August 16, 2020

Union with God cannot be achieved until a person completely annihilates his self. Such a Union is not the merging of two to make one. Union is your total annihilation. Absurdity doesn’t turn falsehood into Truth. Only a fool says, “Everything is God.” Rubailer (2016), Rubai #2, page 179

Tags: Annihilation, God, Truth, Union
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From Behind Thousands of Curtains (7/19/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted July 19, 2020

Once my soul had turned its face to the Essence and given up whys, whats and hows, it started to see eternity. The secret of Love and the meaning of creation which had been concealed from it up until then appeared from behind thousands of curtains. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1,...

Tags: Annihilation, Essence, Secret, Soul, Veils
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This Fire (7/12/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted July 12, 2020

If you want to enlighten the universe, if you want to increase the light of this world, all your body must turn into fire like the sun. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beauty, Love's Fire, Servant
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Only a Fool Says… (6/21/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 21, 2020

Union with God cannot be achieved until a person has completely annihilated his self. Such a Union is not the merging of two to make one. Union requires your total annihilation. Absurdity does not turn falsehood into Truth. Only a fool says, "Everything is God." Rubailer (2016, Rubai #2, page...

Tags: Annihilation, Dualistic Perception, God, Truth, Union
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Hold Fast (6/7/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 7, 2020

Without the pure water from the sea of Love, our pearl would turn into stone. If there were no world to be found inside of our soul, our soul and that world would shrink and confine us. Pain from the Beloved polishes your heart and soul. Hold fast to it...

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Love, Patience, Suffering
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Your Scent (5/10/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted May 10, 2020

Once I got a tiny whiff of Your scent, I was forced to go Your way. My color and scent were stolen by Yours. I was annihilated in the end, so nothing was left of me, not even a scent. No scent. Nothing. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #3, page 175.

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Nondualistic Perception, Nothingness
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