#essentialrumi

[asthegirlturns]

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” — Rumi Week 2 of the Gratitude Flow commences with thanksgiving for the ability to come to our mat every day. Six opportunities this week to kneel and kiss the ground: Tuesday, 12:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., and 5:30 p.m. C-2 (CorePower Yoga Pasadena) Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. C-2 (CorePower Yoga Sherman Oaks) Thursday, 12:00 p.m. C-2 (CorePower Yoga Pasadena) #cpypasadena #cpyshoaks #gratitude #attitudeofgratitude #thanksgiving #kneelandkiss #essentialrumi (at CorePower Yoga)

[gidgetry]

Unfold Your Own Myth

Who gets up early  to discover the moment light begins?  Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms?  Who comes to a spring thirsty  and sees the moon reflected in it?  Who, like Jacob blind with grief and age,  smells the shirt of his lost son  and can see again?  Who lets a bucket down and brings up  a flowing prophet?  Or like Moses goes for fire  and finds what burns inside the sunrise?

Jesus slips into a house to escape enemies,  and opens a door to the other world.  Soloman cuts open a fish, and there's a gold ring.  Omar storms in to kill the prophet  and leaves with blessings.  Chase a deer and end up everywhere!  An oyster opens his mouth to swallow on drop.  Now there's a pearl.  A vagrant wanders empty ruins.  Suddenly he's wealthy.

But don't be satisfied with stories, how things  have gone with others. Unfold  your own myth, without complicated explanation,  so everyone will understand the passage,  We have opened you.

Start walking toward Shams. Your legs will get heavy  and tired. Then comes a moment  of feeling the wings you've grown,  lifting.

-Rumi

(Taken from The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks)

[snrahaman]

"I am lying in the dust at your feet my heart - tangled curls in your hair. As long as that's all! His lips moved and let your kiss my soul free. "

_ Rumi(ra) ,