The Wayshower

Thought of the Day... "Self Portrait" by David Whyte

It doesn't interest me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel
abandoned.
If you know despair or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where I stand. I want to know
if you know
how to melt into that fierce heat of living
falling toward
the center of your longing. I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.

I have been told, in that fierce embrace, even
the gods speak of God.

~ David Whyte, from Fire In the Earth ~

Quote of the Day... Love

“For a day, just for one day, 
Talk about that which disturbs no one 
And bring some peace into your 
Beautiful eyes.” 

― Hafiz, The Subject Tonight Is Love: Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz

A Meditation - Jelaluddin Rumi

Today, like every other day,
we wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Sufi Mystic - Jelaluddin Rumi - 13th Century

 

Quote of the Day... Love

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

~ Rumi

Quote of the Day... Rumi

We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless - directed by the one who teaches us, the pure joy of the sun, our music master.

 ~ Rumi

Quote of the Day...

"Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

Quote of the Day.... Rumi

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the east or the west, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and  that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being. sufi mystic - jelaluddin rumi - 13th century

 

Quote of the Day.... Journey Within

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself.

Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light. 

~ Rumi

Today's Blessing...

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield, but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved, but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant that I may not be a coward, feeling Your mercy in my success alone; But let me find the grasp of Your hand in my failure. ~ rabindranath tagore

 

Quote of the Day.... Solitude

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson