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Tag: Union

My Gift to You (4/17/2022)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted April 17, 2022

Our heart and Love have both come from behind hundreds of curtains, They sit together, naked. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Heart, Love's Fire, Union
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Come (2/6/2022)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 6, 2022

Come. The door to exit the six dimensions is being opened. A dust has risen from the bottom of that sea.   Come. Every head, every mind has been filled with the fragrance of the union of a soul and the One who gives souls. (more…)

Tags: Ecstasy, Fire, The Journey, Union
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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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Not Even a Small Part of This Comes from the Sky (11/21/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 21, 2021

Is there a lip from which the smell of soul isn't coming right now? Is there a particle of the heart in which a trace of Him doesn't reside?   If there are no provisions coming from that famous table, why is every particle chewing cud like a camel? (more…)

Tags: Absence, Drunk, Ecstasy, Love, Silence, Union
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Bravery (10/25/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted October 25, 2020

One has to be singular and sincere on the way of imploring. One has to embrace troubles. It is not bravery to run towards Union. One has to be brave on the day of separation. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 363

Tags: Separation, Suffering, Union
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Only a Fool Says… (8/16/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted August 16, 2020

Union with God cannot be achieved until a person completely annihilates his self. Such a Union is not the merging of two to make one. Union is your total annihilation. Absurdity doesn’t turn falsehood into Truth. Only a fool says, “Everything is God.” Rubailer (2016), Rubai #2, page 179

Tags: Annihilation, God, Truth, Union
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Only a Fool Says… (6/21/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 21, 2020

Union with God cannot be achieved until a person has completely annihilated his self. Such a Union is not the merging of two to make one. Union requires your total annihilation. Absurdity does not turn falsehood into Truth. Only a fool says, "Everything is God." Rubailer (2016, Rubai #2, page...

Tags: Annihilation, Dualistic Perception, God, Truth, Union
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Such a Love (2/23/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 23, 2020

I need such a Beloved that my soul will hold His stirrup. I need such a musician that Venus will die in front of Him. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Drunk, Ecstasy, Love, Obedience, Soul, Union
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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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Only a Fool Says… (9/2/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 2, 2018

Union with God cannot be achieved until a person completely annihilates his self. Such a union is not the merging of two to make one. Union is your total annihilation. Absurdity doesn’t turn falsehood into Truth. Only a fool says, “Everything is God.” Rubailer (2016), Page 179, Rubai #2

Tags: Annihilation, Truth, Union
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The Untied Knot (7/22/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted July 22, 2018

The one who ties the untied knot again is laughing at himself as well as the world. They talk about union and separation. But, one cannot be united until he is separated. Rubailer (2016), Page 246, Rubai #3

Tags: Separation, The Journey, Union
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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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Eternal Sovereignty Has Come (4/1/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted April 1, 2018

Blasphemy is dressed in black. Divine light has come. They are beating the drum of immortality. Eternal sovereignty has come.   The Earth has become green. The sky has torn its cuff and collar. The Moon has split in half once more. Pure soul has come. (more…)

Tags: Resurrection, Union
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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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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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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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Turn (5/14/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 14, 2017

I really keep turning around bad luck, keep borrowing trouble when I turn around myself, my illusions instead of You. (more…)

Tags: Death, God, Humanity, Mirror, Union
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Grief Is Dead (4/16/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted April 16, 2017

Watch death. How does it come back to life? Look at how the free cypress has become a slave, a servant.   Watch and see how these loose, decayed boxes and coffins are filled with soul, with Love and knowledge. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Drunk, Love's Sugar, Resurrection, Union
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A Slave (3/26/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted March 26, 2017

Do you think that I am my own master? That I control myself for even one moment? Like a pen, I depend on the One who writes with me. Like a ball, I am a slave of the Master who hits me with His club. Rubailer, Page 330, Rubai #1

Tags: Beloved, Servant, Union
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It Is Time (1/1/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted January 1, 2017

How long will we be satisfied by the shapes and appearances of time? How long will we watch and sniff after existence? I am tired of the materials and creatures of the present; it is time to see that Beauty of Beauties. But, when I look at Him, I see...

Tags: Beloved, Existence, Humanity, Union
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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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Union and Separation (9/11/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 11, 2016

The one who ties the untied knot again Is laughing at himself as well as the world. They talk about union and separation. But, one cannot be united until he is separated. Rubailer, Page 226, Rubai #2

Tags: Separation, The Journey, Union
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