Ruminating with Rumi
Let the silence embrace you. Appreciate its gift. It feeds you knowledge. Enter the room within. Sit at the table. Receive what is set before you with grace and gratitude. There is no need to wander about the world seeking nourishment. Jesus invited all to the table. No one is turned away, but it is your choice to leave the highways and hedges to enter the room within and to leave what you are doing to attend the banquet.
To fall into the embrace is to become the whole of the all. You are the one. Move out into the world. Bring all with you. You are no longer among many. You are the many. To walk in the world in unity with all is to be whole and complete. No longer lost, you are the way. What comes and goes whirls around you. You are the emptiness at the hub of the wheel. You stare without fear at the oblivion of death and say, I AM.
You are nourished in abundance when you take your place at the table. It is set for you. Share what you receive in loving-kindness. Take your portion. Give the rest as a blessing to all. To do so is to remain faithful to your true nature, for you are the whole of the all. You are the many. You are that which I AM. There is no other.