Ruminating with Rumi
Put yourself out there. Stop hesitating. Are you not ready to receive? Your desire to know is strong. To receive, you must return home after being gone. You have been looking for your treasure in the world. The search has been real but unnecessary. Your truth is sealed within. You do not know this. To remember your truth, you first must seek. This is the way of the world. Existence gives you this and that. These are rocks to look under, but your treasure is hidden elsewhere. You cannot know the secret place until you have exhausted all the rocks. Desire and hope keep you busy turning over stones. As you look, you wonder if this is the right way. You begin to remember the unseen. Your eyes open. Directions shift. The path turns. You think of letting go. Why flounder, you say, turning over stones, when you can follow the way of the path set before you. You have received the path without asking. Grace has opened the way to you. To walk this path, empty yourself of desire. You cannot receive if you are stuffed with hope. Stay empty. Find harmony with the way. Open to your true nature. It remembers your presence within and welcomes you home. You do not need to find the way. The way will find you. There are many who promise. Few have the passion of knowing. Turning over stones dilutes your passion. Their promises go unfulfilled. Your fulfillment is in you now. Look within. Stop hesitating. Go now to the room within. You have come a long way to know that you are the treasure hidden there. You are the one. There is no other.