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Through Love

December 14, 2010

Through love all that is bitter will sweeten. Through love all that is copper will be gold. Through love all dregs will turn to purest wine. Through love all pain will turn to medicine. Through love all the dead will become alive. Through love the king will turn into a slave. ~Rumi Related Posts:The Good, [...]

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Remember the Field

October 27, 2010

“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.”  Rumi I’m at Daddy’s house.  Clock ticking.  Refrigerator running.  Meditation finished.  Overcast outside.  [...]

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A Strange Passion

October 6, 2010

“A strange passion is moving in my head.  My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky.  Every part of me goes in different directions.  Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”  Rumi Related Posts:Wild and FreeThe Good, The True, The BeautifulCultivating Space

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Wake Up!

September 29, 2010

“This is how a human being can change.  There’s a worm addicted to eating grape leaves.  Suddenly, he wakes up, call it grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he’s no longer a worm.  He’s the entire vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, a growing wisdom and joy that doesn’t need to devour.”  [...]

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Sweet Baby Wren

August 11, 2010

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”  Rumi Related Posts:Let Your Heart Break Open and ExpandMagical ThinkingOsprey Acrobatics

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Beyond Wrongdoing and Rightdoing

May 11, 2010
missouri fox trotter

This is a view from the balcony of my new place.  Hot Shot is one of the horses I care for, a Missouri Foxtrotter, and he is a horse with an attitude.  Did he get his name because he acts like a hot shot, or does he act like a hot shot because he got [...]

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