Time is rushing
From everywhere
All directions
Inside and out
Past - future
Physical time
Emotional time
Psychological time

Time
Is a single
Moment

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The road to devastation
Takes many forms
Insignificance
Is another’s greatest calamity
Don’t judge the result
By the route
The devastated know
Total
Is
Total
J Harper
The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.
Rumi

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The price for peace
Is your life of
Pain & suffering
Worry & agitation
Fear & emptiness
Petty thoughts & needs
The dull drab monotonous
No wonder
So few
Are willing
To pay

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The problem with in-laws
Is the concern
For their family values
Not you
The mind’s orientation
Toward the soul
Is similar

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My friends at the Balloonman created this Valentine bouquet for me. I was blown away by the… creativity!

This previous post is very appropriate for today – Valentine’s Day.

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Medicine, 1080
Medical research progresses at the Benedictine school associated with the monastery established at Monte Cassino in 529.
Arabian, Jewish, and Greco-Roman medical works are translated into Latin by Constantine the African, a physician who has studied medicine and magic at Babylon and who is now disguised as a monk. His translations of Galen and Avicenna […]

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A calligraphy near Rumi’s tomb reads: “after my death, don’t seek my tomb in the earth, for my grave is in the hearts of the men of mystical knowledge.”

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My friend stopped dreaming today  She opened her eyes in the other world
A kaleidoscope of tears assaults and soothes my soul  Love & Rage, Joy & Sadness, Anguish & UnderstandingA shower of memories – like fairy dust  Illuminates our time togetherIn every future moment  I will miss you – as I wonderHow is this possible?  […]

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You tell me
How to stop
 
When I spread my arms
To hold it back
The current became the wind
Whistling between my legs
I came inside to escape
It followed me in as infinite stillness
Now that I’ve tasted that
There’s no escape
 
Beware
My friend
Stillness
Will steal you
From yourself

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God!
You should hear
Me complain!
 
About this lack of sleep
You’d never know
I’ve just awakened
From a fifty-year snooze
 
Every time I try to relax
A new tale from beyond
Enters my head
Going on and on
Like a broken record
Until I let it out
 
Or, some soft kiss
Steals into my heart
Setting it on wing
This canary’s very nature
Is endless sweet song
 
There’s no time to rest
The […]

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