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Tag: Patience

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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Bitter Grapes (3/29/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted March 29, 2020

O my soul, they found a way to make sugar out of sugarcane. They learned how to weave silk from the matter of mulberry leaves. Be patient. Bitter grapes become halva with time. *halva  Sweetmeats. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #2, page 157.

Tags: Patience, Suffering
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There is a Way (1/5/20)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai)Posted January 5, 2020

O confused heart, the way to the Beloved is through your soul. O one who has lost his way, there is a road to the Beloved which is both known and unknown. Don’t worry if your way is blocked from all six directions. There is a way right from the...

Tags: Heart, Patience, Peace, Soul, The Journey
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You Are the Antidote…You Are the Bait (7/28/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted July 28, 2019

What is life without You? Life without You is forbidden.   Living without Your beautiful face is nothing but death, that thing which was given the name, "life." (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Existence, Love, Patience, Separation
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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 Pearls in Their Hearts (7/8/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted July 8, 2018

Now the tree branches are blooming fresh flowers. When they lost all their leaves, they could still see the pearls in their hearts, so they stayed standing up. They didn't lose hope. They didn't break. They didn't even bend. Rubailer (2016), Page 211, Rubai #3  

Tags: Heart, Patience, Resurrection, Suffering
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One Day… (6/10/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 10, 2018

One day your heart will take you to the One who caught your heart. One day your soul will take you to the Beloved. Don’t let go of the skirt of your pain. One day your pain will take you to the Remedy. Rubailer, Page 474, Rubai #3

Tags: Beloved, Heart, Patience, Soul, Suffering, The Journey
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There Is Always a New Day (3/4/18)

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

I am Joseph of Canaan. My face like the Moon is the witness to that, although no one has asked for proof, for a witness from the Sun. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Existence, Humanity, Patience
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Don’t Worry (1/28/18)

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

Once you become the friend of one whose heart is in God, don’t pay attention to other people and their customs. Your soul will fall in Love’s fire like your fate. Don’t worry. Don’t run away. Know this well:  From now on, you won’t fit in anywhere.      ...

Tags: Beloved, Love, Love's Fire, Patience, Soul, Suffering
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It Will Stay With You (1/14/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted January 14, 2018

The branch that is full of flowers today will grow lots of fruit tomorrow. The falcon of desire will go on the hunt one day. The image of the Beloved comes and goes now, but the time will come when it stays with you. Rubailer, Page 421, Rubai #2

Tags: Beloved, Patience
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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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There Is No Tomorrow (8/6/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 6, 2017

My heart has been flying with Love since early dawn, because the one who sets the trap has plans for me.   I wonder what kind of dream my heart saw last night that I have such exuberance in my head. (more…)

Tags: Exuberance, Heart, Love, Patience
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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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Yes (12/25/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 25, 2016

Yes, that door will be opened in the end. Yes, in the end, that silver-bodied charmer will appear, show his face. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Divine_Wine, Love's Sugar, Patience, Union
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From Words to Ecstasy (11/6/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 6, 2016

The secret of Truth cannot be understood by asking questions, gathering information, or spending all of your wealth and belongings. If you haven’t cried for fifty years with bloody tears, if you haven’t burned your heart out, you will never find the way from words to ecstasy. Rubailer, Page 267, Rubai #2

Tags: Annihilation, Heart, Patience, Suffering, Truth, Union
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Come to Us from Us (2/28/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted February 28, 2016

Unless your soul has been intimate with this door for a long time, Unless your heart has been filled with the pain and sorrows of Love, You will never find a road to us from your self. You should give up your self and come to us from us. Rubailer,...

Tags: Annihilation, Patience, Suffering
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