Thursday, January 6, 2011

Rumi: Out beyond the Field

Move from within.
Don’t move the way that fear wants you to.
Begin a foolish project.
Noah did.

 -- Rumi

Today's guidance from The Rumi Card Book:
Reward Card -- After despair, many hopes flourish just as after darkness, thousands of Suns open and start to shine.  Your suffering has earned you a glorious fresh start.
Category explanation from the book: The divine Love that urges our journey ever onward also constantly and lavishly rewards us for every sacrifice we make and every action of true generosity that we undertake.  When the eyes of Love really open in us, we see that life is an unbroken stream of ordinary miracles and that just to be alive is a matchless reward.

Click here to watch:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/archives/rumi_vid.html

Out Beyond the Field


Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to
talk about ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense.

4 comments:

  1. "Let the beauty we love be what we do." What a great resolution for the New Year.

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  2. "Begin a foolish project." That also would be a great statement of intention for the New Year.

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  3. Oooooh, Maureen, I like that one a lot, too!

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  4. Oh my -- what a perfect Rumi to read and hear today.

    Thanks!

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