allthatzart

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you....

Don't go back to sleep

You must ask for what you really want

Don't go back to sleep

People are going back and forth across
the doorsill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open

Don't go back to sleep

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication...

"Looking up gives light...

although at first it makes you dizzy” .... Rumi

A little while alone in your room....

will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given to you.

Which is worth more...a crowd of thousands,

or your own genuine solitude?

Freedom....

or power over an entire nation?

"The ground submits to the sky...

and suffers whatever comes. Tell me,
is the Earth worse for giving in like that ??”

Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field....

I'll meet you there.... Rumi

People....

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;

and they pass by themselves without wondering

Silence is an ocean... Speech is a river....

The net, of course, finally closed around him, and as he lay in the
terrible frying-pan bed, he thought,
"If I get out of this,
I'll never live again in the limits of a lake.

Next time, the ocean! I'll make the infinite my home."

Inside me a hundred beings are putting their fingers to their lips and saying,
"That's enough for now.... Shhhhh."

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river

Green again....

We began as a mineral.
We emerged into plant life and into the animal state,
and then into being human,
and always we have forgotten our former states,
except in early spring
when we slightly recall being green again... Rumi