Heart and Mind

"Do not listen to the voice of the mind. Listen to the voice of the heart. The mind wavers, the heart does not. The mind fears, the heart is undaunted. The mind is the home of doubts, reasonings and theories. The heart when purified becomes the dwelling of the Beloved. Rid your heart off low desires, malice, selfishness and God will manifest in you as your true Self."

--Meher Baba

Nothing Can Be Compared

O God,
Whenever I listen to the voice
of anything You have made
The rustling of the trees

The trickling of water
The cries of birds

The flickering of shadow
The roar of the wind
The song of the thunder,

I hear it saying:
God is One!

Nothing can be compared with God!

~ Rabia

The King of Love

All the world praises you,
"But where did this "you" come from?
All the universe is born of Love
But where did this Love come from?

O Beloved,
you are the owner of the land of life
the light of my heart;
Even the King of Love
knows no love
that is not yours."


~ Rumi

When the Wind is Perfect

On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a 
day.

 

My eyes are like the sun that makes promises;
the promise of life
that it always
keeps each morning.

 

The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere,
both caress the earth with great
tenderness.

 

This is a breeze that can enter the soul.
This love I know plays a drum.  Arms move around me;
who can contain their self before my beauty?

 

Peace is wonderful,
but ecstatic dance is more fun, and less narcissistic;
gregarious He makes our lips.

 

On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open
and the love starts.

 

Today is such
a day.

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Expands His Being

All beings
are words of God,
His music, His
art.

Sacred books we are, for the infinite camps
 in our
 souls.

Every act reveals God and expands His being.
I know that may be hard
to comprehend.

All creatures are doing their best
to help God in His birth
of Himself.

Enough talk for the night.
He is laboring in me;

I need to be silent
for a while,

worlds are forming
in my heart.

Meister Eckhart

The Angels Know you Well

 

 

You have fathered a child with me.

 

You had your night of fun.

 

If You no longer want the love my beautiful body can yield,

 

At least rake care of that Holy infant my heart has become.

 

God, You sired an heir with me when You gave birth to my soul.

 

I thought of complaining to all the angels Last night

 

About Your treatment of this, "Homeless child,"

 

But then I remembered they too Have a list of love-complaints

 

Because They also know You so well.

 

 

~ Hafiz

Liberation

"The individual soul is entangled in the world of forms and does not know itself as one with the being of God. This ignorance constitutes the bondage of the soul, and spiritual sadhana must aim at securing emancipation from this bondage. Ex

ternal renunciation of the things of this world is therefore often counted among the sadhanas that lead to Liberation. Though such external renunciation may have its own value, it is not absolutely necessary. What is needed is internal renunciation of craving for the things of this world. When craving is given up, it matters little whether the soul has or has not externally renounced the things of this world, because the soul has internally disentangled itself from the illusory world of forms and has prepared itself for the state of Mukti, or Liberation. Detachment is an important part of the sadhana of knowledge."

--Meher Baba

Die to Yourself

Unless you give up the breath of your desires and die to yourself, 
you cannot have the breath of real life and live forever.

You can own a world as long as you do not allow yourself to be owned 
by any part of it through attachment.

Renunciation of desires does not mean asceticism or a negative attitude of life. Without avoiding contact with the different aspects of life, maintain complete detachment in the midst of intense activity.

--Meher Baba

Love Demands a Mystic Silence

"From each, Love demands a mystic silence. 

What do all seek so earnestly? Tis Love. 

Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts, 

In Love no longer "Thou" and "I" exist, 

For self has passed away in the Beloved. 

Now will I draw aside the veil from Love, 

And in the temple of mine inmost soul 

Behold the Friend, Incomparable Love. 

He who would know the secret of both worlds

Will find that the secret of them both is Love."

-- Attar

What Happens

What happens when your soul
Begins to awaken
Your eyes
And your heart
And the cells of your body
To the great Journey of Love?

First there is wonderful laughter
And probably precious tears

And a hundred sweet promises
And those heroic vows
No one can ever keep.

But still God is delighted and amused
You once tried to be a saint.

What happens when your soul
Begins to awake in this world

To our deep need to love
And serve the Friend?

O the Beloved
Will send you
One of His wonderful, wild companions -

Like Hafiz.