Tag: Rumi

Sunday Quote: Joy

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The music in our heart

When I am silent,

I fall into that place where everything is music.

Rumi

Keep walking

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Today is the birthday of  the 13th Century Persian Poet Rumi. So here is one of my favourite short quotations, which in its few lines contains as much as we need to know. 

Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to.
Don’t try to see through the distances.
That’s not for human beings. Move within,
But don’t move the way fear makes you move.

Being present

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Since in order to speak,
one must first listen,
learn to speak by listening.

Rumi

Sunday quote: In darkness and silence

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There is a place

where words are born of silence.

Rumi

….. or following our dreams

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Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it?

They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.

Rumi

When we stop clinging to the known and allow our dreams to become instruments of change, we learn to practice meditation in action at the deepest level. In these moments, we must risk taking a joyful leap with no guarantee of being caught as we fall.  In Zen practice, we call it stepping off of the hundred-foot pole — living fully without clinging to anything. Students often speak to me of the great fear that arises even contemplating taking a leap into not-knowing from the cliff top of their old life.  All we can rely on, after the joyful leap, is the reassuring discovery of what truly sustains us. I am still in freefall but sometimes I feel the comforting arms of “just this.”

Melissa Myozen Blacker, The Joyful Leap

Sunday Quote: Open a window

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Keep knocking,

and the joy inside will eventually open a window

and look out to see who’s there.

Rumi