Tag: nature
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river—each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged. ~Rumi
I am wind, you are fire. ~Rumi
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. ~Rumi
We are, all of us, people of the sea.
How will you know the difficulties of being human if you’re always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. ~Rumi
Wash clean the knot of the heart
When the heart
is eclipsed by the mind,
what you do may seem smart
but be received as unkind.
I ask a flower, “How is it you are so wise so young?” ~Rumi
Teach the children
To walk gently on earth
Silently through crowds
Invisibly like clouds,
Breathing poems
Into life.
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. ~Rumi
Prayer clears the mist and brings peace back to the soul. ~Rumi
To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart. ~Rumi
The spirits of the shoreline offer their prayers to the sea.
Even if you sleep through its lightning, you will be awakened by the thunder of the storm before dawn.
“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.” ~Rumi
Within each moment, seeds of silence
Within each seed, a new spring
Within a drop, the ocean
Within this second, no first
Within one, all
I’m like a bird from another land, sitting in this aviary. The day is coming when I fly off. ~Rumi
Often I don’t know why a particular image appears. This time I do. I’ve been reading Ocean Country, by Liz Cunningham. The ocean is so vital to all of us, and Liz writes about it in a way that is both personal and political, poetic and compelling.
