Ruminating with Rumi
Die to the body. Return to the room within. Do so when ready. To enter the room within is to relieve yourself of worldly ways. The treasures on Earth pale next to the pearl within you. Your outward ways are filled with passion and desire. You want more, not less, of life and its attainments. You have done well, but it is the pearl that you seek. Listen. What you gain in the world is illusion. Do not hang on to false perceptions. Let go. Grasp the pearl. The pearl is real. The treasure within is your true nature. Jesus said to sell all and buy the pearl. Do so with joy.
The journey within is personal. It cannot be said. Its intimacy is lost in the words. You cannot pretend to know and then say. Your actions will betray you. You cannot pretend to know the way. You will end up lost in the brambles and covered by the dust of the world. You are not the focus of your quest. You go to the mountain to remember your true nature. Your outer form is full of itself. It might attain all the world’s treasures and never know the pearl within. You cannot be served by both treasures. You must choose between the way of the world and that of the path that leads within, although in the end there is no choice. You never left your true nature. You have only forgotten twia in your dream of separation.