Tag Archives: Rumi

L is for Love, Love, Love, Love

Love is best for you, your natural health and your natural beauty

What the world needs now is love, sweet love!  Love is all you need.  Could any three words (or two in some other languages) be more important than “I Love You” (or te amo, or je t’aime).

The sun rises and sets each day, and on each of these days I hope you have love, find love, are in love, love what you are doing, are loved by someone.  It’s a lonely world out there without love.  For all of you who are in love, I say be grateful!  For those of you who seek love, I say have faith, there is someone out there who will love you.  For those of you who search for meaning in life,  I say search for the meaning in love.

We can do something for love.  We can be in love. We can make love.  We can fall in love.  We can show our love.  We can send our love.  There are so many kinds of love available – love can be  a profound and tender feeling filled with passionate affection for another person.  Love can be a deep affection or attachment to a parent or a child or a pet or a friend.

Listen to the words of Rumi with your heart and with an open desire for love:

Love Is All There Is

This is love:
to fly toward a secret sky,

to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of life.
In the end, to take a step without feet;
to regard this world as invisible,
and to disregard what appears to be the self.
Heart, I said, what a gift it has been
to enter this circle of lovers,
to see beyond seeing itself,
to reach and feel within the breast.

From:
The Divani Shamsi Tabriz, XII

 

 

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R is for Rumi – Ecstatic Romantic Spiritual Poetry

Rumi for the Mind, Body & Spirit

Jalal Al-Din Rumi, born in 1207, was the founder of the Sufism, an openhearted exploration of unity.  Rumi’s words offer an all-encompassing spirituality relevant to our times: being present in the moment, finding the holiness in laughter. We have seen that the pathway to serenity and peacefulness can lie in chanting Kirtan, or being able to sit in the silence and meditate, or to wildly laugh as in Laughter Yoga,

Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry, and dance as a path for reaching God. For Rumi, music helped devotees to focus their whole being on the divine, and to do this so intensely that the soul was both destroyed and resurrected. It was from these ideas that the practice of “whirling” dervishes developed into a ritual form – the constant turning of the dancers is a movement of turning towards God with one hand up to receive the blessing, revolving from right to left around the heart, the dancer embraces all humanity with love.

My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my love.

 

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