A Community Of The Spirit

[OneidaDreamer]

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.

Open your hands,
if you want t o be held.

Sit down in this circle.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.

At night, your beloved wanders.
Don't accept consolations.

Close your mouth against food.
Taste the lover's mouth in yours.

You moan "She left me." "He left me."
Twenty more will come.

Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought

Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.

Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.





Jelaluddin Balkhi
AKA RUMI

[whitewave]

Howd I miss this one?! AH Love it! Just like always. Much props to you my friend.....you've done it again.

[OneidaDreamer]

Originally Posted by whitewave

Howd I miss this one?! AH Love it! Just like always. Much props to you my friend.....you've done it again.

Thank you for your compliments. But this poem was written sometime in the 1200's by RUMI.

[whitewave]

Originally Posted by OneidaDreamer

Thank you for your compliments. But this poem was written sometime in the 1200's by RUMI.

oh hehehe ah well you know good work when you see it then lol.

[OneidaDreamer]

Originally Posted by whitewave

oh hehehe ah well you know good work when you see it then lol.

Well the OD does abide...