You have no idea how hard I've looked

for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to
the gold mine, or water to the ocean.
Everything I came up with was like
taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my
soul because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me.

Rumi

I will meet you there

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing

there is a field. I will meet you there.



When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other

doesn’t make any sense.

~Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.

 ~ Caroline Myss

Love is a great mystery that has been inspiring artists and poets for thousands of years, and will probably continue to do so forever.

On some level it is innately human to crave to be met in relationship, to feel connection to others, to be held by another.  Always seeking communion with the Divine.  Always seeking to feel received, to feel warmth, love, passion. Is it an unquenchable desire to be completed by another?

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

Attraction is something we sense—something we feel—it is not always logical.  When we “let go” and surrender to the feelings, allowing them to wash over us, and indulge in their pure intensity, we open ourselves to experiencing life to its fullest.

When it's cold and raining ♥ You are more beautiful.

When it's cold and raining,
You are more beautiful.
And the snow brings me even closer to your lips.
The inner secret, that which was never born,
you are that freshness, and I am with you now.
I can't explain the goings, or the comings.
You enter suddenly, and I am
nowhere again. Inside the majesty.

♥♥Rumi♥♥

“Let

Yourself

Be

Silently

Drawn

... By

The

Stronger

Pull

Of

That

Which

You
Really

Love.”

~Rumi

Quotes

"Know that Grace has the power to transform everything you aspire to. So aspire to the highest, and offer yourself to that Grace. Grace will hold you every step of the way. Anusara is a path of Grace." 
~John Friend




Adyashanti's Emptiness Dancing - A few passages, slightely edited...
"[Real love] is pre-existing... Possibly the only fear greater than death is love, real love. Finding out that you do love, that this is your nature, is the beginning of the end for everything in you that thinks it is separate... There is no such thing as loving once and then not loving...

True love has nothing to do with liking someone... It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God... This is a love that has no opposite...but is present in everything... When you realize this, it is a revolution because [this love] loves the unlovable, loves what you're not supposed to love or what you were not allowed to love culturally, and is not paying attention to the separating rules of ego...this is a different kind of love... This love is timeless. This love is uncontained...

The truly sacred love is the love of what is, not a love of what could be. This love liberates what is..."

Adyanshanti's book, Falling into Grace:

"Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available - when we become open-hearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know. In this gap of not knowing, in the suspension of any conclusion, a whole other element of life and reality can rush in."

"Open Up to Life as It Is":

"When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dying nature of your being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start doing things differently."
 ~Pema Chodron


"You can find the Divine in your longing."
~Kabir

"Awakening is a shift in perspective.
And if you shift your perspective,
it can help you awaken."
~Sally Kempton

"On the path of love, we are always beginners."O Lord, lead me to the state of undying awareness -that is nectar. Lead me from the death of "in-awareness"
and from being "non-present" to the Nectar of Presence."
~Sally Kempton

We never really know the depths of Love."

~Sally Kempton

"Adore and love God with your whole being,
and He will reveal to you that everything
in the universe is a vessel to be filled to the brim
with wisdom and beauty. Each thing He will show you
is one drop from the boundless river of His
infinite beauty. He will take away the veil that hides
the splendor of each thing that exists, and you
will see that each thing is a hidden treasure
because of its divine fullness."

"Love is the sea where the intellect drowns."

"Because of Love, I am a giver of Light."

"Only from the heart, can you touch the sky."

"This Divine Love, beckons us to a world
beyond only lovers can see,
with their eyes of fiery passion."

"Oh, my friend, all that you see of me,
is just a shell, and the rest belongs to love."

"Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end."

"The way you make love,
is the way God will be with you."

"There is some kiss we want with our whole lives,

the touch of spirit on the body."

~Rumi

Rumi Quotes

You have no idea how hard I've looked

for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to
the gold mine, or water to the ocean.
... Everything I came up with was like
taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my
soul because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me. ♥



Rumi ♥

I was dead, I came alive. I was tear, I became laughter - all because of love. When it arrived, my temporal life from then on changed to eternal. Love said to me, "You are not crazy enough, you do not fit this house." I went and became crazy; crazy enough to be in chains. Love said, "You are not intoxicated enough; you don't fit the group." I went and got drunk, drunk enough to overflow with the light-headedness. Love said, "You are still too clever filled with imagination and skepticism." I went and became gullible and in fright pulled away from it all. Love said, "You are a teacher, your are a head, and for everyone you are a leader." I am no more a teacher, not a leader, just a servant to your wishes. Love said, "You already have your own wings, I will not give you more feathers." And then my heart pulled itself apart and filled to the brim with a new light - overflowed with fresh life. Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love, I have become the giver of light.

~ Rumi

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of it's furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

~ Rumi

I am no longer just one drop.
I have become the Sea.
I speak the language of the heart where every
particle of me, united, shouts in ecstasy!

Rumi ♥

Be melting snow.

Wash yourself of yourself.
A white flower grows in the quietness.
Let your tongue become that flower.


Rumi

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart.

~Rumi

Caught by our own thoughts,

we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
Whatever will be, will be.

Rumi ♥

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow

In that silence, I will hear the voice of spirit,
and freed from this world, I will see another world
where the end is another beginning.

~ Rumi ♥

I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.

Just in case heart might stop, mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forget.

~ Rumi

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:

every success depends upon focusing the heart.
~Rumi

If you knew the secrets of life

you too would choose no other
companion but love.

♥ Rumi ♥

The time has come to turn
your heart into a temple of fire.
Your essence is gold hidden in dust.

To reveal its splendor,
you need to burn in the fire of Love.

Rumi ♥

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

♥ Rumi ♥

There is a force within

Which gives you life
Seek that.
In your body
Lies a priceless gem---
Seek that.
O wandering Sufi,
If you want to find
The greatest treasure
Don’t look outside,
Look inside, and seek that.


~ Rumi