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Tag: Soul

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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Leave Him Alone. Let Him Go. (8/26/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 26, 2018

I yelled, "Where is that drunk heart going?" The Sultan of sultans said, "Be silent. He is coming to our side." (more…)

Tags: Absence, Body, Existence, Heart, Soul, The Journey
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A New Life Altogether (8/12/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 12, 2018

O one who has flown out from this narrow cage, O one who has gone to the heights of the sky,   From now on, you are starting a new life altogether. What is this aimless life? (more…)

Tags: Body, Resurrection, Soul, Truth
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So That’s That (6/17/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 17, 2018

Tonight, take my soul completely from this poor body. Take it out, so I will have no name, no fame in this world. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Divine_Wine, Soul
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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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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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Our Jar Cannot Take Any More (4/15/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted April 15, 2018

People were born from the Sea of Soul like water birds. How do those birds which come from the sea make this place their home?   We are engulfed by the soul's sea with every breath we take. If it were not so, why do the waves come one after...

Tags: Annihilation, Body, Drunk, Exuberance, Heart, Soul, The Sea, Union
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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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It Should Be Lit (3/11/18)

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

Man’s heart is like a candle: It should be lit and shine. There is a void in man's soul because of his being separated from the Beloved. That void needs to be repaired. Know, O ignorant one who understands none of what makes or breaks a heart, who neither smiles nor cries,...

Tags: Beloved, Heart, Humanity, Soul, The Journey
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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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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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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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The Joy Among Joys (12/17/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted December 17, 2017

O head, you are the reason among reasons. O flesh, you are the stranger among strangers. O heart, you are the desire among desires. O soul, you are the joy among joys. Rubailer, Page 417, Rubai #3

Tags: Body, Heart, Mind(Reason), Soul
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Only a Madman… (11/19/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 19, 2017

I said, “O Beloved, You are wine. I am the glass. I am a dead body, You are my soul. Come. Open, unlock the door of Your Kindness.” He answered, “Be silent. Only a madman keeps his door open all the time.” Rubailer, Page 390, Rubai #4

Tags: Beloved, Body, Divine_Wine, Soul
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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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Ask me… (11/5/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 5, 2017

Ask me about the essence of insanity on the way of Love. Ask me about the soul that is gone and lost, about the mind turned upside down. Ask me about the days filled with hundreds of events. Ask me about the deserts burned by the fire of blood. Rubailer,...

Tags: Insanity of Love, Mind(Reason), Soul, Suffering
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Once Love Comes to Talk (10/29/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 29, 2017

The mind is a bondage to lovers and the ones on the journey, O son. The road is clear, obvious if you break your ties, O son.   The mind is an impediment. The heart is a deception. The soul is a curtain. The body is coarse. The road is hidden because...

Tags: Annihilation, Body, Existence, Heart, Love, Mind(Reason), Pearl, Soul, Truth
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Bees Don’t Make His Honey (10/15/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 15, 2017

Before wine, the vineyard or the grape ever existed in this world, our soul was drunk with everlasting wine, with God’s wine.   Before this hide and seek, before Mansur* said that secret word, made that subtle point, we kept saying, “I am God,” in the Baghdad of this world. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Death, Divine_Wine, Soul
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A Secret Rose Garden (7/16/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted July 16, 2017

He is a secret rose garden which bushes are concealing. He appears in hundreds of different shapes, but He is the only one. He is a coastless ocean that covers everything. One wave from this ocean becomes hundreds of waves in every soul. Rubailer, Page 352, Rubai #3

Tags: God, Language_of_the_Mute, Love, Soul
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That’s How Sweet It Is (6/11/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 11, 2017

He said, "Let me offer soul's wine to you, so you won't be oppressed with anxiety and sorrow. Never mind sorrow. Every merry one will pledge joy to you. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Divine_Wine, Drunk, Soul, Thanks
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A Colorful Show (6/4/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 4, 2017

This is the time for war, O soul. Put on your arms. It is getting late, O soul. Don’t hesitate. This world is nothing but a colorful show, O soul, with a cat-and-mouse fight on every corner. Give it up, O soul. Give it up.            ...

Tags: Existence, Humanity, Soul
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Why Does Your Soul Keep Growing? (2/5/17)

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

Is there a lip from which the smell of Soul doesn't come? Is there a heart in which He doesn't have a trace?   If there are no provisions coming from that famous table, why is every particle chewing cud like a camel? (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Existence, Heart, Silence, Soul
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The Hidden Treasure (1/29/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted January 29, 2017

We are the hidden treasure of this muddy world. We are the owner of the land of Eternity. Once we pass through the darkness of this mud, We are Hizir* and the Fountain of Life. *Legendary Godsend who attained immortality by drinking from the water of life; comes to aid...

Tags: Annihilation, Love, Resurrection, Soul, The Journey
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Where Is Our End? (12/4/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted December 4, 2016

The wine which is forbidden to the body is served to the soul of the one who is free from the body’s bondage. Until the last drop, don’t say, “This is the end.” Who knows where our beginning is?  Likewise, where is our end? Rubailer, Page 274, Rubai #4

Tags: Divine_Wine, Knowledge, Soul
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Your Value (10/30/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 30, 2016

Look in your soul for your lost heart. Ask for the peace and decision of your soul from your Beloved.   There is the pleasure of the plant of Absence in sugarcane. But, look for that pleasure in your lips and on your teeth. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Heart, Soul
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The Soul of Truth (10/16/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 16, 2016

O One who changes the soul moment by moment into different shapes inside of the body! O One who is closer to me than my thought of these subtle points! (more…)

Tags: Love, Soul
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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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O Heart, What Are You Waiting For? (8/21/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 21, 2016

Beloved, look at us. You are the soul of the eye's sight. How can I tell you that you took our heart? You are our heart. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Drunk, Heart, Love's Sugar, Soul, Suffering
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Look at This Bright Soul (6/26/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 26, 2016

Make sure of this creed: The Way of Lovers is the road that lovers walk, A way entirely opposite of others. Even their ostentations, their lies are better than other’s truths, kindnesses and favors. (more…)

Tags: Love, Soul, Suffering, The Journey
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The Beyond (6/4/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 5, 2016

Some people tell stories about the Beyond. Some expect help from the Beyond. Souls secretly leave their bodies, Searching for the Beyond. Rubailer, Page 202, Rubai #2    

Tags: Soul, The Journey
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