Ruminating with Rumi
To live from within is to live in abundance. Do not cling to the world for abundance. It offers spun sugar that lacks nourishment and does not last. Devotion to the world alone is limiting. Remember twia. Twia sees beyond form. To follow twia is to know the way. Receive twia in your heart. Open to the joy that is I AM. Do not run to catch joy. Do nothing. Joy will find you from within. Your voice calls to you. Stop and listen. Take in joy. This is your abundance. Joy is all. You know joy by grace. It is your own true nature. You are the voice that calls your name. Heed the call. Receive joy abundantly. There is no reward in this. There is no punishment. There is you in your own embrace of joy. The depth of joy in the embrace cannot be said. It is known without words.
Joy is love without fear. Love without fear does not submit to worldly ways. It is the eternal I AM. It is not your desires with their countless expectations. What you feel inside with all its conditions is not love. It is desire. You desire other and want to make it your own. This is fear. You fear not having what you want from the world. What you long for seems fulfilling until it is not. Worldly love is transitory and tainted by fear. It fulfills you for now but is not the end. What you seek is love that does not submit to the world. This is eternal love without fear. This is joy. Joy is your true nature. In joy, you live in love with all without conditions. You are joy. You are the one. There is no other.