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HOPE...FOR YOUR PATH "And if every way is closed before you, the Secret One will show a secret path no other eyes have seen." - Rumi * * "Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place." - Rumi * * * WINGS Friend, leave aside all the others and speak of yourself. Say what you possess and you have found, And what pearls you have drawn from the deep. When the senses fall into darkness, will your heart be a trustworthy flame? When dust fills your eyes, will your grave still be bright? When hands and feet fail, Will you rise then on Great Silent Wings? - Rumi * * * * ONLY YOU KNOW "This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anyone else. You know who you are. You are the shining Star." -Rumi * * * * * YOU ARE MUCH MORE O companion, Look around. You Are not some local appearance. You Are the bright blue sky And the deep green sea. YOU Are a vast ocean, The drowning place of A thousand "I" 's. - Rumi  * * * * * *
IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME "I am a cup caught in the hand of Love. If you don't believe me, Look in my eyes. * Or better still, Listen to my heart Beating like crazy..." -Rumi * * * * * * * A DEEP MYSTERY "I am through with everything but You. I am dying into Your mystery, And dying, I am now no otherThan that mystery. "I open to Your Majesty As an orchard welcomes rain.And twenty times that. "I am rejoicing. I am a beggar given goldWith no giver in sight. "Not united, not speperated, I try whispering perfection.But no sound comes. You are beyond description, Beyond even reason to be. "We are the fishes in Your sea.We are Your gestures and Your pleasures. "But Oh, my Love, You are not approached by thoughts like these. Love is not approached by thought at all." - Rumi On Purposeful Living "Life does not need comfort, when it can be offered meaning, not pleasure when it can
be shown purpose. Reveal what is the purpose
of existence and how he may attain it--the steps he must take--and man will
go forward again hardily, happily, knowing that he has found what he must have--intentional living--and knowing that an effort, which takes all his energy because it is worth his full and constant concentration,
is the only life deserving the devotion, satisfying the nature and developing
the potentialities of a self-conscious being."
- Anonymous These are from a decidedly Christian perspective, but the principles and scope are quite vast: On the Quest for Knowing God "For Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart cannot be quieted till it may find its rest in thee." - St. Augustine "Know
that, by nature, every creature seeks to become like God. Nature's intent is neither
food nor drink nor clothing, nore comfort, nore anything else in which God is left out. Whether
you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret
out the track on which God may be found."
-Meister Eckhart, German Scholar, Mystic On Knowing Yourself & Knowing God These
were helpful and thought-provoking for me during the early stages of my
deeper spiritual growth: "We should mark and know of a very truth that all manner of virtue and goodness, and even that Eternal Good, which is God Himself, can never make a man virtuous, good or happy so long as it is outside the soul, that is, so long as the man is holding converse with outward tings through his senses and reason, and does not withdraw into himself and learn to understand his own life, who and what he is."
-Anonymous (one of the "Friends of
God") 14th Century "To
get at the core of God at His greatest, one must first get into the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. Go to the depths of the soul, the secret
place of the Most High, to the roots, to the heights; for all that God can
do is focused there."
- Meister Johannes Eckart, 1260-1327 German scholar, mystic. "...to realize the full potential of this journey, it is necessary that you be
willing to immerse yourself in the treacherous waters of change, knowing that the ability to swim like a champion, under all
possible conditions, is within you. Let there be no doubt in this, nor fear, nor regret. The destination is predetermined.
And your course is set. You will arrive at that destination right on schedule. It cannot be otherwise. What
is open is what you choose to create and to experience along the way. There is no point in deluding yourself into believing
you are not ready. For it is far too late to wonder if it is safe to put your toe in the waters of transformation when
you are already far from the shore." - Rasha (from "Oneness", pg. 97) *** "When one
clings to the trappings of a life that is a monument to seperation, the dismantling process is a major undertaking and its
manifestation in that individual's reality can be extremely uncomfortable. When there is surrender to the momentum of
a process that is clearly "larger than life", one is able to ease through the trransitions and experience the full
magnitude of joy in one's realization of the heightened states of being." - Rasha (from "Oneness", pg. 101) *** "...Don't destroy the roots;
otherwise there is not going to be any flowering. Those roots continuously supply the juice to the flowers. All
the color in the flowers comes from the roots, and the fragrance in the flowers... All the dance of the flowers in the wind
comes from the roots. Do not divide. Roots and flowers are two ends of one phenomenon." - OSHO (A remarkable statement of Oneness amidst the
appearance of duality. From "The Book of Understanding" [pgs. 14~20], Discussing "Zorba the Buddha", i.e., freedom to enjoy life's pleasures, or Zorba, providing "the roots" that lead to the quest for Bhudda, or "the flower" of enlightened understanding. Intriguing insight into the balance and blending
of understanding of the two, and how "it's all good" as "all things work together for good".)
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