rumi on 'quietness'

[thoreau]

inside your new love, die
Your way begins on the other side
Become the sky
Take an ax to the prison wall.
escape. walk out
like someone suddenly born into colour
Do it now.
You're covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,

and be quiet.

Quietness is the surest sign that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running from silence.

the speechless full moon comes out now.

- Rumi on Quietness

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The moon won't use a door, only a window.

Comments

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of Rumi. Have you read Hafiz' work? His verse is a bit more raw; Rumi is elegant Hafiz.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

I have this Hafiz poem in calligraphy on both my home and office bulletin boards:

Light
Will someday split you open
Even if your life is now a cage,

For a divine seed, the crown of destiny,
Is hidden and sown on an ancient fertile plain
You hold the title to.

love will surely bust you wide open
Into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy

Even if your mind is now
A spoiled mule.

A life giving radiance will come,
The Friend's gratuity will come -

O look again within yourself,
For I know you were once the elegant host
To all the marvels in creation.

From a sacred crevice in your body
A bow rises each night
And shoots your soul into God.

Behold the Beautiful Drunk Singing One
From the lunar vantage point of love.

He is conducting the affairs
Of the whole universe

While throwing wild parties
In a tree house - on a limb
In your heart.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

the next book project - which I'm outlining now? - is based on this stanza of Rumi: