Ruminating with Rumi
You are not the form. You are the spirit within. To love as the body and its personality is to love with fear. The fear of loss weighs heavily on worldly love. In spirit, there is no loss or gain. Love in spirit is without fear. Love without fear is joy. Joy is your true nature.
That which I AM is joy. You do not know joy when the dust of the world clouds your vision. To walk the way of the world is to tread through billowing dust with eyes that do not see. But there are two paths. The way of the world and the way of the path. It is easy to find the way of the world. It is the dust blowing all around you. You experience the dust in form. It enters every pore of your body. Out of the dust comes your personality. The dust you take in becomes who you are in the world, but joy resonates within and awaits your recognition of its presence.
The me of the body knows pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. It does not know joy. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow are transitory. Joy is eternal. It has no opposite. Joy does not exist. It is real. Joy appears to you through the dust. There is nothing between you and joy. You are the same. There is no other than joy. Do not deny its presence within. To expect more or less joy is to deny its reality. In itself, joy is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. There is no other.
Joy is eternal reality. It cannot change. It cannot be altered. Accept its reality as yours. Stop asking for this and that. Embrace joy. Joy knows the way. Joy knows the path of the inner journey. Joy is the way that removes fear from love. Such love is silent. It does not speak. Love without fear has no words to say. It does not abide in the dust of the world. There is no yesterday or tomorrow with joy. It cannot be compared with this or that. It has no distinctions. You can be with joy, but you cannot say its name.
To know joy is to walk the way of the path. This is to remember that which I AM. To remember twia is to enter the room within. Herein the path is revealed. Joy comes face to face with fear. Fear struggles to live but fades in the light of joy. Be the witness to fear. Be the joy that you are. Witness fear without accepting its reality. The love in you that is joy does not know fear. To fear is to love the me of the body as your true nature. This is a false love. It comes from the ignorance of accepting the body and its personality as real. But fear is just dust blowing in the wind. Do not love that which is transitory. It dies. That love is tainted by fear. It is never lasting. To love without fear is to know joy. Joy is everlasting. It is your true nature. There is no other. What you lose in the world you gain a thousand-fold within. Die to world and find joy within.