Integration..

[artemis42]

Unpacking progresses, clouds come and go, and I remain filled with love.

Rumi is a deep balm to the soul, and an excellent reminder of union's expansive nature.

Deeply grateful for the opportunity, I dive within, a drop merging with the ocean.

Drunk on poetry.

Later.

-Me.

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All That Is Good

Look and see:
All that is good
comes from the heart.
All that's not good
comes from mixing water with dirt.

If you chase after your desires,
overcome by lust,
the mud around you will increase
one hundred fold.
Salvation comes when you give up
the fancies and desires
that opened the door to all your troubles
in the first place.

The only reason you can't give up your desires
is that you're lazy.
Since you are the problem,
it will follow you
wherever you go.

Promise yourself that
you won't break your oath.
Otherwise the disease will remain
and the cure will be lost.

If you stay firm in that oath,
your soul will give birth to
one hundred thousand pleasures.

Then this iron heart
will turn into a mirror.
At every moment, a mature and perfect face
will look back at you.

-Rumi, translated by Nevit O. Ergin and Will Johnson