Ruminating with Rumi
Listen within and you will know. You can try first at the top of the mountain. You might climb great heights. There is much that you might find to be amazing. But when you bring glory down from the cool mountain top, it too often starts to stink in the warmth of the valley. The valley consumes all alike. The valley does not discriminate. It nourishes all who arrive. Glory and despair disappear. All is lost as you gain everything. You return to your true nature. This you find within. Enter and receive. The waters of the valley will lead you to the sea. Listen and you will know the way.
Did you listen? Do you know? Or do you still wonder what you will eat tomorrow? Your body frets and turns in its dream. It fears loss and accepts abundance. In the end it survives. Survival is its function. Fear is its driving force. It fears death and struggles to survive. It finds its way in the world, then fades away, back to the dust from which it came. You want more, so you climb the mountain. You see the sky and reach for the stars. Then you awake in the rising sun and come down to the valley. The valley is the womb to which you return to be born anew. It contains and nourishes all.