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The wisdom of Rumi

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Michaela

Advice doesn’t help lovers! They’re not the kind of mountain stream you can build a dam across. An intellectual doesn’t know what the drunk is feeling! Don’t try to figure what those lost inside love will do next! Someone in … Continue reading →

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The wisdom of Rumi

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Michaela

Ghazal 119 I don’t need a companion who is nasty sad and sour the one who is like a grave dark depressing and bitter a sweetheart is a mirror a friend a delicious cake it isn’t worth spending an hour … Continue reading →

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Not here

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Michaela

There’s courage involved if you want to become truth.  There is a broken- open place in a lover.  Where are those qualities of bravery and sharp compassion in this group?  What’s the use of old and frozen thought?  I want … Continue reading →

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The wisdom of Rumi

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Michaela

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. … Continue reading →

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Love Song

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Michaela

A poem by R.M.Rilke How shall I hold on to my soul, so that it does not touch yours? How shall I lift it gently up over you on to other things? I would so very much like to tuck … Continue reading →

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Training the Hudson

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Michaela

A poem by Jerome Into the fog……can you see? Great blue herons lurch into it, geese in rows float through it. A lone sentinel marks the channel where depth and shallow are obscured….. Can you see?

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Stillness behind the words

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Michaela

Buddha – a poem by Rainer M. Rilke for J.D. As if he listened. Quiet…something far… We hold our breath, hearing it no longer. And he is star. And other giant stars, unseen by us, orbit him out yonder. He … Continue reading →

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Buddha in Glory

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Michaela

by Rainer M Rilke Center of all centers, core of cores, almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet– all this universe, to the furthest stars all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit. Now you feel how nothing clings to you; your … Continue reading →

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Let nothing upset you…

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Michaela

God alone is enough Let nothing upset you let nothing startle you. All things pass; God does not change. Patience wins all it seeks. Whoever has God lacks nothing: God alone is enough St. Theresa of Avila (b 1515 d. … Continue reading →

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The wisdom of Rumi

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Michaela

This is for a friend of mine….. You sit here for days saying, “This is strange business.” You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of … Continue reading →

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