17.Jan.2010 surrender
We have not come here to take prisoners,
But to surrender ever more deeply
To freedom and joy.
We have not come into this exquisite world
To hold ourselves hostage from love.
Run my dear.
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.
Run like hell my dear
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the sacred, tender vision
Of your beautiful heart.
We have a duty to befriend
Those aspects of obedience
That stand outside of our house
And shout to our reason
“O please, O please,
Come out and play.”
For we have not come here to take prisoners
Or to confine our wondrous spirits,
But to expereince ever and ever more deeply
Our divine courage, freedom, and
Light!-rumi
02.Jun.2008 echoes that spill from celestial spheres
music opens our hearts and surely ensnares
with echoes that spill from celestial spheres;
and faith far beyond the impaled cast of thought
turns ugly dissonance to honey by angels brought.adam’s children turned and so coarsely tied
hear with him the angel’s songs and smiling sigh.
we remember them, even faintly, as yearning
heartbeats of the sweet soul’s original learning.oh, music feeds the calling souls of lovers,
music raises the spirit from its earthly covers.
the ashes grow bolder and shed their fur
listen with stillness that only souls can share.(mathnavi IV, 733)
