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Tag: Nothingness

The Secrets of Our Heart (5/15/2022)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 15, 2022

One cannot reflect our fire, nor can one articulate the secrets of our heart.   Our early morning sighs are not confidants with whom we share our troubles, nor is a friendly soul even to be found to hear those sighs.   We are not the pearl which has been...

Tags: Heart, Language_of_the_Mute, Nothingness, Soul, The Sea
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Like Roses… Like Gold Mines (12/5/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted December 5, 2021

My soul is in the heart of the people who remain always soul. They are like roses, knowing nothing but kindness. Everyone has some content. We are like chips of gold. They are like gold mines. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 358. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx....

Tags: Absence, Attained Ones, Gold Mine, Heart, Nothingness, Soul
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The End of My Story (10/17/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted October 17, 2021

Once I was a child and followed teachers. Next, I was content watching the faces of my friends. But, see what happened at the end of my story: I came like a cloud and left with the wind. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 351. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin...

Tags: Humanity, Nothingness
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Focus Your Eyes on Absence (7/4/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted July 4, 2021

You cut me off like an umbilical cord in the name of drunkenness. Even then, O Cupbearer, why did You leave me?   You create such Love with every breath. O One who makes everything appear, why are You not apparent? (more…)

Tags: Absence, Longing, Mind(Reason), Nothingness, Separation, Soul, Suffering, The Unseen
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Glory after Glory (4/11/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted April 11, 2021

If He destroys hundreds like me, that causes no sorrow for Him. You fall in Love. He doesn't care. Your heart is broken. He has many others.   He asks, "Why can't your eyes see the wine?" What can they do? They are always wet in front of Your sun....

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Exuberance, Nothingness, The Journey, The Sea
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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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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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Make Sure You Learn This Sign (2/9/2020)

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

Something is striking like lightning. I wonder if that is my heart captivating the Beloved. What is shining from that corner? Is that the ruby mine?   What is around that pearl? Is it the Moon or a star? It is suspended like a lamp made of divine light.  ...

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Divine Light, Heart, Nothingness, Pearl, Soul
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I Will Keep Silent (12/1/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 1, 2019

Just now, ruby-colored tears have started coming from my eyes. A trace of Love's dust never appears, but a sign has appeared from Love. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Essence, Evidence, Love, Lover, Nothingness, Soul
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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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As Long As Existence Persists (5/19/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 19, 2019

We have seen that time has no beginning of its beginning, because we are the ones who have fallen in Love. The others are merely spectators. (more…)

Tags: Existence, Fire, Love, Nothingness, Sea, The Journey
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The Beyond (2/17/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted February 17, 2019

Some people tell stories about the Beyond. Some expect help from the Beyond. Souls keep running out of bodies secretly, looking for the Beyond. Rubailar, Rubai #4, Page 222.

Tags: God, Humanity, Love, Nothingness, Soul
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If This Were Not So (12/16/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 16, 2018

Every moment,  the Beloved's kindness follows after sorrow. If this were not so, no one could stand this suffering. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Beloved, Eternity, Nothingness, Suffering, The Journey
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Love’s Murmur (11/25/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 25, 2018

There is nothing remaining in my ears but Love’s murmur. There is nothing remaining in my soul –no reason, no thought– only the sweetness of Eternity. The colorless brush of Love has blended all colors. Still, the state of no-color remains. Rubailer (2016), Page 184, Rubai #4

Tags: Love, Nothingness
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Just Empty Words (11/11/18)

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

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), Page 226, Rubai #3

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Life, Nothingness
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The Sweetness of Eternity (9/16/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 16, 2018

There is nothing remaining in my ears except Love's murmur. There is nothing remaining in my soul--no reason, no thought-- only the sweetness of Eternity. The colorless brush of Love has mixed all colors. Now, it can't even remember its past. Rubailer (2016), Page 184, Rubai #4    

Tags: Absence, Love, Nothingness
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The One Who Exists Is Not Me (5/20/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 20, 2018

"O Sultan of the Earth," I said in the early dawn, "I swear to God that there is no one who matches You. No one is Your peer. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Drunk, Nothingness
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Absence Is for Heroes (11/12/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 12, 2017

Once more, we have given up our heart, mind and soul. The Beloved has come. We will stay out of the way.   We have turned our back on existence.  Our direction is Absence. We have found the One whose trace is unseen. We have given up the trace. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Divine_Wine, Heart, Mind(Reason), Nothingness, Soul, Time
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The Sweetness of Eternity (5/7/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted May 7, 2017

There is nothing remaining in my ears except Love's murmur. There is nothing remaining in my soul--no reason, no thought-- only the sweetness of Eternity. The colorless brush of Love has mixed all colors. Now, it can't remember its past. Rubailer, Page 164, Rubai #2

Tags: Love, Nothingness
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Who Knows God? (4/30/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted April 30, 2017

In His eyes, both worlds resemble a piece of grain in front of a rooster. The eye that has seen Greatness is like that. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, God, Humanity, Nothingness, Suffering
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“God Knows Best” (3/5/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted March 5, 2017

I became the confidant of the One who set out to search. I became a friend of the One who settled down in the land of Glory.   I saw a dome beyond the six dimensions. I turned into the floor, the dirt of that dome. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Death, God, Love, Nothingness, Secret
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The Smoke and Saliva of Thought (1/22/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 22, 2017

If Love has the desire to embrace and kiss someone, who could resist, my friend, who could?   When the Sultan goes hunting, the place where He hunts smiles. But, when the Sultan becomes the hunt, what can you say to that? (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Mind(Reason), Nothingness, Patience, Silence, The Journey
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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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No Belief, No Heresy Remains (10/23/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted October 23, 2016

I have been dissolved like salt in the sea of purity. Neither faith nor doubt remains in me. No belief, no heresy remains. A shining star has appeared in my heart, and the seven layers of the sky have disappeared into that star. Rubailer, Page 265, Rubai #1  

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Nothingness
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“And We Will Go That Way” (10/2/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 2, 2016

Rise, O lovers.  Let us all ascend to the sky. We have seen this earth.  Let us see the other one.   No, no.  Both gardens are beautiful and nice. Let us give up both of them and go to the Gardener.   (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Humanity, Nothingness, Soul, The Journey
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The Alchemy of Non-being (7/3/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted July 3, 2016

What could a scorpion do to one who drinks Your sherbet? How could poison affect me when I have reached Your sugar lips? You are the alchemy of Non-being. How lucky is that man who is maturing in Your fire. Rubailer, Page 210, Rubai #2

Tags: Annihilation, Nothingness
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A Pearl Inside of Me (6/12/16)

By MillicentIn UncategorizedPosted June 12, 2016

Hodja, greetings to you. I want to start a journey. I have found a passage, a road on the roof of the sky. (more…)

Tags: Love, Nothingness, Pearl, Separation, The Journey
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Do You Know What Love Is? (4/3/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted April 3, 2016

O sword of time, pull out from the sheath of space. Dive into the sea like a fish. Swim this endless sea of meanings. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Love, Nothingness, Suffering
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