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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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Come Closer So I Can Show It To You (11/29/2020)

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

Your soul is so close to my soul that I know whatever you think.   I have even better proof than this. Come closer so I can show it to you. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Love, Self, Soul
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The Lesson of Silence (9/6/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted September 6, 2020

Who is the doctor of the disease which has no cure? Who is our company for this endless journey?   If this is reason, what is craziness? If this is Love, who is the Beloved? (more…)

Tags: Self, Silence
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Who Is It? (5/3/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 3, 2020

Who is it that gives taste and charm to color and shape? When He hides, form becomes like a child of the devil. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Body, Mind(Reason), Self, Soul
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If I Miss this Opportunity Now (4/5/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted April 5, 2020

My heart appreciates Beauty. Why should I run away from the Beloved? The dagger in my hand is a good one. Why should I turn my face away from battle? (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Heart, Obedience, Self, The Journey
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I Did Not Recognize Who I was (7/21/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted July 21, 2019

At first, like others, I preferred being my self. Although I was aware of my existence, I did not comprehend my being. Because I could not see, I did not recognize who I was. I was merely hearing my name. Finally, and only when I went out of myself completely, I...

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Essence, Self
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Words’ Ship (3/3/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted March 3, 2019

You have said so many times, "I have given up words. I prefer silence." Yet, you turn around words, so much so that you have turned into talk. You sail with words' ship on the sea of thought, that sea which you have not renounced and which words' ship never will. Rubailar,...

Tags: Mind(Reason), Self, Silence, Words
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Majesty, Majesty, Majesty (12/23/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted December 23, 2018

Love is completion, completion, completion. The self is imagination, imagination, imagination. This divine light is majesty, majesty, majesty. Today is the Day of Union, Union, Union! Rubailer (2016), Page 287, Rubai #4

Tags: Divine Light, Love, Self, Union
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Throw Away This Image (10/7/18)

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

The words which come from the soul are a curtain to the soul. The fog which comes from the sea hides the coast and the pearls of that sea.   It is a great task to get involved in philosophical discourses. But, the explanation is the curtain to the Sun...

Tags: Curtain, Existence, God, Self, Soul, The Earth, The Sea, Truth
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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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The Shrill Pipe of Love (6/3/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 3, 2018

You are coming our way. You are a decent person. We are also nice. In appearance we look like fire, but we are the Fountain of Life for you.   You are a small pigeon. You were born in this nest. If you don't come this way on your own, we...

Tags: Annihilation, Comfort, Divine_Wine, Love, Self, Soul, Suffering, The Journey
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Your True Thirst (4/8/18)

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

You eat kebab and drink wine. But, know this well: You are eating and drinking in a dream created by you. Once you wake up, you will still be hungry and thirsty. The water you drink in your dream will never satisfy your true thirst. Rubailer, Page 457, Rubai #1

Tags: Divine_Wine, Humanity, Self, Soul
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Your Being is the Curtain (3/25/18)

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

If you become prey to God, you will be freed from sorrows. If you run after your desires, you will stay a slave to your self. You should know this very well: Your being is the curtain that conceals God from you. Don’t stay with your self. If you do, you...

Tags: Self, Suffering
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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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There is … No Remedy…Except You (11/26/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 26, 2017

O my Life who adds Soul to my soul, lift the curtain. O One who takes care of my grief, who is willing to stay with me all night long!   O One who hears my cries, timely and untimely! O One who puts fire into every atom of my...

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Divine_Wine, Love, Love's Sugar, Self, Suffering
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Gamble with Your Life (4/23/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted April 23, 2017

Gamble with your life. Take every chance you can. You can't reach His union by talking. They don't serve milk to drunks by the glass of Sharia.* In the place where wine is served, they pour it only to those who have undressed from the "self." Not even a drop is...

Tags: Annihilation, Divine_Wine, Self
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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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