Ruminating with Rumi
You cannot increase or diminish wisdom. Wisdom is complete. Nothing can be added or removed. You can gain wisdom, but you cannot say, “here’s more.,” nor can you deplete it. The room within is paved in wisdom. Enter and receive your abundance. Be humble in your approach. Do not rush the door. You cannot carry worldly treasures across the doorsill. You may see your clever thoughts as sparkling gems, but they are dull in the presence of wisdom. Remember, you are not your thoughts. Leave them on the threshold. Empty your mind, for wisdom is your true nature.
To come to wisdom, leave all behind. Worldly thoughts cannot pass through the door of the room within. Abandon all attachments, including the body. Do not drag it to the threshold. It cannot cross over the sill. To enter the room within is to touch the eternal. The body becomes an outer garment that drops away as you journey inward. You are eternal in your true nature. To enter the room within is to be born anew. You may continue in the world, but it is far less consuming. Wisdom and joy become your splendor. You experience them in the whole of the all. Can any of this be said? Only in the silence.
Once you enter the silence, there is no way out. Once you know wisdom, there is nothing outside your knowledge. You find that the room within has no doors, no walls, no windows. It is the home of the eternal in you. It is your true nature. In the room within, you know that which I AM. Herein, there are no boundaries, no limitations. Stop haggling in the world over trivial matters. Leave them behind. Grow into the crown of consciousness. You are joy in existence. Bring your abundance to bear on the whole of the all. Why hesitate? What do you gain by holding back? You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal now. Not later.
In wisdom, step forth into the whole of the all. Do no harm. Walk softly on the land. Leave no mark. Remember, as you walk along the shore you have not put your footprints in the sand before the ones behind are washed away. Be humble in knowing that you have no meaning but that which you carry with you. Choose wisely.