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Tag: Ecstasy

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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That World (12/20/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted December 20, 2020

The shouts of the drunk are coming from the heavens. That drunk is coming with yells and cries and screams. The soul and the world have become exuberant thanks to all such clamor. They both are coming from that World. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 171.

Tags: Absence, Drunk, Ecstasy
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The Real Treasure (11/22/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 22, 2020

Absence is Essence. Everything else is an attribute. Absence is health. Everything else is an illness. This world is a big headache, a grand illusion. Absence is the real treasure. To reach it is the purpose of this world. Rubailer (2016), Rubai#1, page 277.

Tags: Absence, Ecstasy, Essence, Magnificent Lie, Suffering
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A One-Year Old Love (8/2/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted August 2, 2020

An eye which gazes upon that rose, that tulip fills the whirling sky with wails and cries. The intoxication you get from a one-year-old Love you could never get from a thousand-years-old wine. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 186.

Tags: Absence, Divine_Wine, Ecstasy, Existence
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Songs and Screams (6/28/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 28, 2020

Every night, the specter of my Beauty praises the attributes of my Essence and talks about the Absence of my Essence which proves my Existence.   The Sultan of chess of the seven stars sends a sign from His ayn*-like eye and cim-like ear which checkmates me.   If I...

Tags: Absence, Ecstasy, Existence, Silence, Suffering, The Journey
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Yet, We Still Keep Struggling (5/17/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 17, 2020

O beauty, you are a beautiful charmer. Give up acting with such poor appearance, such poor behavior. If you are content, luck will be a slave and servant for us. (more…)

Tags: Dualistic Perception, Ecstasy, Existence, Nondualistic Perception, Nothingness
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The Sound of the Key (3/1/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted March 1, 2020

I am a mountain. I am echoing the Beloved. I am a painting. That Beauty is my painter. Do you think all these words I say belong to me? No. They are the sound of the key turning in the lock. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 128.

Tags: Beloved, Ecstasy, Secret
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Such a Love (2/23/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 23, 2020

I need such a Beloved that my soul will hold His stirrup. I need such a musician that Venus will die in front of Him. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Drunk, Ecstasy, Love, Obedience, Soul, Union
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Stay for Awhile (7/14/19)

By MillicentIn Rumi PoetryPosted July 14, 2019

A sugar buyer comes, saying, "A caravan has arrived from Egypt."   Hundreds of camels come loaded with sugar cane. O my God, what a beautiful gift. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Ecstasy, Love, The Sea
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How Wonderful is the Kingdom of Love! (4/21/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted April 21, 2019

O Kingdom of Love which opens hearts in the world! O one who has had good fortune, been honored by the secret of "God does what He pleases!"   O the joy that is hidden in the torment of Love! How wonderful, how wonderful is the Kingdom of Love! (more…)

Tags: Ecstasy, Love, Non-Dualistic Perception, Suffering
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The Waves Become Exuberant (3/10/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted March 10, 2019

Our heart feels good today, because You drank its blood yesterday. May it do You good. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Ecstasy, Slave, The Sea
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Come to the Source of Your Source (12/30/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 30, 2018

How long will you be going backwards? Come forward. Don't stay with heresy. It is time to come to faith.   See poison as sherbet. Grab the poison. At last, come to the Source of your source. ******** You are on the Earth as a form. But, you are the threat...

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Ecstasy, Existence, The Journey
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The Pleasure of Love (10/21/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 21, 2018

Does the Earth's honey taste sweet to the one who has the pleasure of Love in his heart?   What can you do with the mind which falls upside-down with only one glass of wine? (more…)

Tags: Bewilderment, Drunk, Ecstasy, Knowledge, The Sea
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Hear This If You Can (9/30/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 30, 2018

Hear this if you can: "One has to go beyond himself to reach Him." When you do arrive in the world of Absence, don't talk. Ecstasy is the language there, not words. Rubailer (2016), Page 175, Rubai #1

Tags: Absence, Ecstasy, Silence
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You Will Never… (2/11/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted February 11, 2018

You will never taste ecstasy as long as you are sober. You will never know the soul if you stay attached to your body. You will never reach the Truth unless you are annihilated like fire and water thrown together on the way to the Beloved's Love Rubailer, Page 430, Rubai #4...

Tags: Annihilation, Ecstasy, Soul, Truth
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Such a Sun (2/4/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 4, 2018

O Charmer who constantly brings forth the Water of Life, where is the source of the water You bring? Really, this time You have brought the One who adds Soul to soul. (more…)

Tags: Divine_Wine, Drunk, Ecstasy
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O Ecstasy! (1/21/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 21, 2018

I wish the bird of soul would fly only in the sky of Ecstasy, because the soul's candle doesn't shine in any palace except that one. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Ecstasy, Self, Suffering
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Hear This Well (1/7/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 7, 2018

If you are in love with Me, I will make you utterly confused. Hear this well. Don't do too much, because in the end, I will destroy you. Hear this well. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Drunk, Ecstasy, Patience, Suffering, The Journey
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That Makes the Garden Smile (12/31/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted December 31, 2017

We are in a season that is as auspicious as the Beloved’s Union. The candle of the soul wakes up when the body dies. When lightning strikes, the clouds start crying. That makes the garden smile. Rubailer, Page 389, Rubai #4

Tags: Annihilation, Ecstasy, Patience, Resurrection, Suffering, Thanks, Union
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So Think About… (7/2/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted July 2, 2017

I have so much excitement in my heart that it is intolerable even for the sky. Majnun and Layla* can’t see my exuberance even in their dreams. All this exaltation is only a small portion of the Beloved’s, so think about how it is in that heart of His. *Majnun...

Tags: Beloved, Ecstasy, Heart
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