Rumi

Out Beyond Ideas
Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field. I’ll 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.
Jalaludin Rumi 
 
 Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness   
Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence: 
This place made [...]

And Now I Become Myself by May Sarton

Now I become myself. It’s taken
Time, many years and places,
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people’s faces,
Run madly, as if Time were there,
Terribly old, crying a warning,
“hurry, you will be dead before —–”
(What? Before you reach the morning?
or the end of the poem, is clear?
Or love safe in the walled city?)
Now to stand still, [...]

Rumi

Step inside the world of mystic poet and lover of God, Jelaluddin Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet.  
 
 
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field. I’ll 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.
 

Some Inspiring Words

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of [...]

Omega: a poem

Omega, a poem by Mike Seymour

There is something of immeasurable
                 and imponderable beauty
                  in every person
which cannot exactly be seen,
but rather touched inwardly from one’s own depths,
a deep connecting with
                  and speaking to deep
                  in a language beyond word
                                             or even breath.
To [...]