Shatter Me, Music Rainer Maria Rilke Shatter me, music, with rhythmical fury! Lofty reproach, lifted against the heart that feared such surge of perception, sparing itself. My heart, - there: behold your glory! Can you remain contented with less expansive beats, when the uppermost arches are waiting for you to fill them with organing impulse? Why do you long for the face withheld, for the far beloved? For, oh, if your longing lacks breath to extort resounding storms from the trumpet an angel blows on high at the end of the world, she also does not exist, nowhere, will never be born, she whom you parchingly miss...
The tart and hearty grapes, destined to ripen, will at last become one in heart by the breath of the masters of heart. They will grow steadily to grapehood, shedding duality and malice and strife. till in maturity, they rend their skins, and become the mellow wine of union. -Rumi, M, 11, 3723-25 From: 'The Knowing Heart - A Sufi Path of Transformation' by Kabir Helminski
Rumi in Fihi ma fihi (Herein Is What Is Herein): All desires, affections, loves, and fondnesses people have for all sorts of things, such as fathers, mothers, friends, the heavens and the earth, gardens, pavilions, works, knowledge, food, and drink-one should realize that every desire is a desire for food, and such things are all "veils." When one passes beyond this world and sees that King without these "veils," then one will realize that all those things were "veils" and "coverings" and that what they were seeking was in reality one thing. All problems will then be solved. All the heart's questions and difficulties will be answered, and everything will become clear. God's reply is not such that He must answer each and every problem individually. With one answer all problems are solved From: 'The Knowing Heart - A Sufi Path of Transformation' by Kabir Helminski
People look in vain places for peace. They seek it in the world outside, in places, people, ways, activities. but no peace is found in this way. They are looking in the wrong direction, and the longer they look the less they find what they are looking for. ~ Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.. ~ Meister Eckhart
That Most Delicate Place
There is a place in all of us that has remained innocent, uncorrupted
and untouched by the world. We have to locate that most delicate place.
It is a very sensitive place, it's where we feel love - where tenderness
and compassion arise, free from self-interest.
This place is the hole we have to fall into - and disappear in forever.
from "Enlightenment is a Secret" By Andrew Cohen
Rainer Maria Rilke - Death of the Beloved He only knew of death what all men say: that those it takes it thrusts into dumb night. When she herself, though - no, not snatched away, but tenderly unloosened from his sight, had glided over to the unknown shades, and when he felt that he had now resigned the moonlight of her laughter to their glades, and all her ways of being kind: then all at once he came to understand the dead through her, and joined them in their walk, kin to them all; he let the others talk, and paid no heed to them; and called that land the fortunately-placed, the ever-sweet. - And groped out all its pathways for her feet.
Accustomed long to contemplating Love and
compassion,
I have forgotten all difference
between myself and others.
~Milarepa
Quoted in 'Zen Soup' L.G. Boldt
Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains about it. ~Marcus Aurelius Quoted in 'Zen Soup' L.G. Boldt
Moving Forward The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. It seems that things are more like me now, That I can see farther into paintings. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven, out of the oak, in the ponds broken off from the sky my falling sinks, as if standing on fishes. ~Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Robert Bly
26. Jesus said, "You see the sliver in your friend's eye, but you don't see the timber in your own eye. When you take the timber out of your own eye, then you will see well enough to remove the sliver from your friend's eye." Gospel of Thomas Translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer
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