Wednesday, April 25, 2012






"To take love seriously and to bear and to learn it like a task, this it is that young people need. —Like so much else, people have also misunderstood the place of love in life, they have made it into play and pleasure because they thought that play and pleasure were more blissful than work; but there is nothing happier than work, and love, just because it is the extreme happiness, can be nothing else but work. —So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a great work: he must be much alone and go into himself and collect himself and hold fast to himself; he must work; he must become something!

For believe me, the more one is, the richer is all that one experiences. And whoever wants to have a deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." From Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke

Sunday, April 22, 2012

From These thousands of me's...


ʺI wonder from these thousands of ʺmeʹsʺ, 
which one am I? 
Listen to the cry, 
do not drown my voice 
I am completely filled with the thought of you.
 Donʹt lay broken glass on my path 
I will crust it into dust. I am nothing, 
just a mirror in the palm of your hand, 
reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. 
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower 
I would pitch my tent in your shadow. 
Only your presence revives my withered heart. 
You are the candle that lights the whole world 
and I am an empty vessel for your lightʺ. Rumi

I smile like a flower not only with my lips 
Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

I smile like a flower not only with my lips

but with my whole being
for I am alone with the King and
have lost myself in him.



At dawn your flame seized my heart
but left behind my body.
I will shout and raise havoc until
you come back for me tonight.



My Beloved, do not let anger estrange my heart
be generous, invite me to your feast.
Let no one be deprived of the joy
of your company.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Let's Fall in Love

Come
let's fall
in love
again
let's turn
all the dirt
in this world
to shiny gold

come
let's be
a new spring
a love reborn



find our aroma
from the essence
of all who
emit heavenly fragrance

like a fresh tree
bloom and spread
all the blessings
right from inside

~Rumi

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Clarity is Freedom
St Teresa of Avila


I had tea yesterday with a great theologian
and he asked me,
What is your experience of God's will ?

I liked that question - for the distillation of thought hones thought in others.
Clarity, I know is freedom.

What is  my experience of Gods will ?

Everyone is a traveler. Most all need loding food and clothes.

I let enter my mouth what will enrich me. 
I wear what will make my eye content.
I wake where I will have the strength to deeply love all my mind can hold.

What is God's will for a wing ?

Every bird knows that.