SOURCING ALL LIFE’S COMMUNIONS
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3:19 AM-5/29/17
Speech is a river.
Traditional words are just babbling
in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
for sight.
Rumi
(all Rumi quotes today are from my heart's memory
found here as well:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi
then leave him who will not be cured,
and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.
Rumi
It has no soul.
Rumi
so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Rumi
into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
and bring your talky business to an end.
Rumi
"Why is it you talk so much about silence?"
His answer:
"The radiant one inside me has never said a word.”
― Coleman Barks,
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
there is nothing that is not me.
Be silent.
Rumi
Don't claim them. Feel the artistry
moving through, and be silent.
Rumi
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites,
so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. –
When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease,
then leave him who will not be cured,
and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.
Disputational knowing wants customers.
It has no soul.
Silence is an ocean.
Speech is a river.
When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk
into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
and bring your talky business to an end
Traditional words are just babbling
in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
for sight.
Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end.
Love said to me,
there is nothing that is not me.
Be silent.
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don't claim them. Feel the artistry
moving through, and be silent.
Rumi
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi
A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?"
His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.”
― Coleman Barks, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems