Reflections from two Spiritual Masters

 I collect books and I like to take time each SUNday to read and study spiritual teachings from my books. This was a week of missions and journeys out in the beautiful Spring Sun. I struggled a bit to pull myself out of the winter cocoon and step into the Light... But when I did, my Heart burst open with reminders, scents, tastes and blue blue sky.

Everything had blossomed sweet and easy, dormancy released, reaching eagerly Up

The surge of sunshine rays hitting the Earth has brought the world into an Awakening.

The birds are singing and dancing through the skies. The flowers are opening to spread their Love. 

We have survived the cold and the depths of the dream, and now we will return back to the Heart of the Sun. As I sit and reflect with my teachers, I remember the ways of Nature and how to live in harmony with Seasons.

Spring is a time for preparation and action. We anticipate the energies of the Summer to come, and the Fall behind it. We must move ourselves to complete the tasks at hand, in order to reap the rewards of our efforts in the future. By connecting with comeUnity around us, we can achieve much more together and share work more equally. We have conserved and stored up deep healing energy over the winter months, and now we are prepared to burst forth our creative abundance and shower our gifts into the World. 

It is a time for celebration of the Oneness we Share, as well as our own Individualities

I send my Love and Gratitude to the great teachers who have walked before us and forever remind us of the power of Connection 

May their words be a reminder to each of us

Our existence is a Miracle !!!

May We each dance in the waves of Time as we discover for Ourselves

May the Light guide and illuminate the Truth in your own heart

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Poetry from mystical Teachers RUMI & KAHLIL GIBRAN 

“The Essential Rumi” 

Translated by Coleman Banks 1995

“Jelaluddin Rumi was born in 1207 and until the age of thirty-seven was a brilliant scholar and a popular teacher. But his life changed forever when he me the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz, of whom Rumi said, 'What I had thought of before as God, I met today in human being.” ...When Shams disappeared, Rumi began his transformation from scholar to artist, and his poetry began to take wing.” ~from back cover

                                                                                 

“A COMMUNITY OF THE SPIRIT 

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 to 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.”

pg 3

“THE WATERWHEEL

Stay together, friends,

Don't scatter and sleep. 

Our friendship is made 

of being awake. 

The waterwheel accepts water

and turns and gives it away,

weeping.

That way it stays in the garden,

whereas another roundness rolls

through a dry riverbed looking

for what it thinks it wants. 

Stay here, quivering with each moment

like a drop of mercury.” 

pgs 247-248

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“The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran 1923

Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 in Lebanon. He is a known poet, philosopher and artist of his time. His works have been transcribed into over twenty different languages. 'The Prophet' is considered his masterpiece. 

“...Speak to us of Work...

     And he answered, saying:

     You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. 

     For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. 

     When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.

     Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

     Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. 

     But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's farthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,

     And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth Loving Life,

     And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret...

...Work is Love made visible.

     And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. 

     For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. 

And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine.”

  pgs 25-28

“And an astronomer said, Master, what of Time?

     And he answered:

     You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.

     You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. 

     Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, 

     And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

     And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. 

     Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?

And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being...?

…But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,

      And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.”

pgs 62-63

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All excerpts transcribed by me from books I have in my personal company.

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