Ruminating with Rumi
To know your true nature is to not let your peace of heart be shaken loose by outward events. Justice and equality are of the heart. Of the mind, they become law to be upheld. Of the heart, they are done in practice without thought. Live from the heart and there is no need of law. Justice and equality will follow naturally from within. The whole of the all will be known by all.
The whole of the all is unity in the world. It is consciousness in existence. Day by day, year by year, age by age, you come to know the whole of the all as your true nature. There is no surer promise than this. It happens to all. Your true nature is present now. You are free to enter its presence at any time. Simply release the world and live without attachment.
Pass quickly through the world. Do not cling to it. Each link of attachment that you forge lies heavy as you drag Marley’s chain. The me of the body is but a shell. Knowing your true nature unchains you from its grip. The body is the sheath. You are the sword. Cut yourself free.
The invisible, the unknowing, is seen from within. To see from within is to alter the world, or the visible, into the known. Then the visible is known as the whole of the all that it is in truth.