collecting myself.
traveling through the universe
My heart is a star.
Under a mystic sea of burning stars,
With no questions to ask—no answers to find,
I wondered if you’d ever thought about vastness.
As if we’re sleeping, you said.
When will we wake up and realize,
We are only hanging from the bottom of a sphere?
And we could drop into the infinite Unknown
If one small rock fell out of the sky,
And realigned our magnet.
Will the backdrop of the night’s sky fall,
And the flames that are our endlessly burning hearts,
Be startled out of their slumber,
And wonder,
When did you stop making me laugh?
(Source: julian-baker)
Our Spiritual Heart: Day #8
Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.
To every cry of ‘Oh, God!’
He answers a hundred times:
‘I am Here.’
- RumiI don’t even know what to write after this. I love all of Rumi’s work but these verses never fail to move me each time I read them. I love how, in the midst of all the…
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be foresighted enough to trust the end result of the process. It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lover of God never runs out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”
“
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.
Guys, one of my friends on Facebook was so excited that Taco Bell was bringing back the Beefy Crunch Burrito that she posted a message on their Facebook wall and asked them if they had a poster that she could get and hang up in her room. And Taco Bell legit sent her a giant-ass poster. I am laughing so hard right now.
(via callmewondergirl)
