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Tag: Nondualistic Perception

Reach Peace (1/9/2022)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 9, 2022

It is vain for you to try to separate my Beloved from me. I have become Him. What can you do to Him? Tell me. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Love, Nondualistic Perception, The Sea, Union
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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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Lighter Than Nothing (4/4/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted April 4, 2021

I am happy, but that happiness is not from the reed-flute. I am warm, but that warmth is not from any water or fire. Love has emptied me so much of my self that when I am measured on a scale, I am two batmans* lighter than Nothing. *An historical...

Tags: Death, Essence, Nondualistic Perception, Nothingness
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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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Smile (10/4/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 4, 2020

Come, O wise, intelligent man. Smile at the fool. Come, O one who knows his way. Smile at the one who is lost. (more…)

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I Gave Up Yesterday (9/20/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted September 20, 2020

O cupbearer, you are the one who satisfies my need. Serve me wine. Make me happy.   I have become so drunk that I can't separate signs from words. (more…)

Tags: Divine_Wine, Drunk, Dualistic Perception, Nondualistic Perception
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Where is His Roof? (8/9/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 9, 2020

Come, O One who gives new life to the world. Stop the workings of this smart mind. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Existence, Mind(Reason), Nondualistic Perception, Soul
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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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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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The Situation (12/15/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 15, 2019

I tried to describe the situation of my heart as I knew it. The tears and blood of my heart had become rough, but I couldn't explain it. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Dualistic Perception, Heart, Nondualistic Perception, Rebirth, The Journey
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Nothing Except the Beloved (11/10/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 10, 2019

“As long as I live, I won’t stray from the right way.” I gave that oath to myself. But later, I looked to my right, then to my left, then to my right, then to my left. Each time, I saw nothing except the Beloved. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page...

Tags: Beloved, Life, Nondualistic Perception
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The Only Way to Reach Eternity (9/22/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted September 22, 2019

Every moment, Your kindness follows after sorrow. If this were not so, no one could stand this suffering.   Make me constantly drunk with the wine which gives no hangover. I don't want any other wine. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Divine_Wine, Grace, Love's Fire, Nondualistic Perception, Nothingness, Sorrow, Suffering, The Journey
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Don’t Even Think of “Two” (1/13/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 13, 2019

I am such a lover that I have given up the road and everything that exists on the road, because the only companion of the lover is that exalted one person who has no beginning of the beginning. (more…)

Tags: Love, Nondualistic Perception
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What’s the Use of That? (12/2/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 2, 2018

O player, play this music. Play this tune. Alas for the ones who block the road! Mercy especially for the one who waylays us on our road!   O player, you learned that other music from that other brigand, because the student has the teacher's accent. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Existence, Joy, Nondualistic Perception, Patience, Soul, Suffering
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The Signs of My Beloved (10/28/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted October 28, 2018

Every particle of my body shows the signs of my Beloved. Every part of my body is the expression of Him. I lean towards Him as a lyre, my crying song created by His hand. Rubailer (2016), Page 102, Rubai #3

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Mirror, Nondualistic Perception, Wailing
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Satisfaction is for the Ordinary (8/5/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted August 5, 2018

Only a satiated one says, "The time is getting late." Satisfaction is for the ordinary. Day or night makes no difference to the brave one. Wolf, sheep, goat -- all are the same for a lion. Rubailer (2016), Page 36, Rubai #3.  

Tags: Nondualistic Perception, Self
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Break the Glass of Duality (3/18/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted March 18, 2018

Thanks to Union, my soul and your soul have become one. These souls are exactly the same, so nothing should remain but the one.   Because of bad habits, our souls were born from wind's fire, then started blowing in our heads. (more…)

Tags: Nondualistic Perception, Separation, Union
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From the Coast of the Sea of Soul (12/24/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 24, 2017

O lovers, may all your drinks do you good. May this world become for you a sugar mine.   O lovers, the sounds of the best wishes have ascended to the Throne. This caravan has gone beyond the Earth and heaven. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Heart, Love's Sugar, Nondualistic Perception, Soul, Thanks, The Sea
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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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“Thanks to God,” You Say (5/28/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 28, 2017

If you don't know me, ask the dark night about me; the night is the confidant of lovers and the witness of the crying and wailing ones. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Lover, Night, Nondualistic Perception, Suffering, Thanks
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