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| A Community of the Spirit - Rumi
There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street, and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye. Open your hands, if you want to be held. Sit down in this circle. Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you. At night, your beloved wanders. Don't accept consolations. Close your mouth against food. Taste the lover's mouth in yours. You moan, "She left me." "He left me." Twenty more will come. Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being. |
| A Mermaid Knows To be a sea maid, one must breathe with the wisdom that freedom is not walking the shore, but touching bottom with faith that one rebounds to fresh waters, through open eyes, with clear lungs, a willing heart, and new skin to breath out the old, and in the daring. A mermaid knows memory is both a chain that binds, and the key that frees; and that the truth heals... --Irene Young |