Ruminating with Rumi
Do not be satisfied with the way things are yet do nothing to change them. To do nothing is to be mindful in the moment of your true voice within. Do not follow the ways of the world as the answer. Remain simple and grounded. How things go for others may not be your way. Be open to your own journey. You have never left your true nature. Separation is impossible in the reality that is consciousness. Your thoughts of separation are illusions in a dream, much like unicorns in a child’s fantasy. You have forgotten that you are I AM. I AM is consciousness expressing separation as existence. You are the expressing that is existence. You are the dancing that is the dance. Know this! Your knowledge will bring the unity of the whole of the all into the world’s awareness.
To know your true nature is to have peace of heart always. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow come from forgetting twia. To forget twia is to lose your way. You are lost in desire and expectation. Do not attach to the ways of the world. You will forge links in Marley’s chain and die under the strain of their weight. There is no weight or strain for you who release all attachment to the world. Release attachment and enter the room within. What you hear within is your own voice welcoming your return. Know your true nature. Be relieved of desire and attachment. Say to all, it is not that I love you, it is that I love. Accept I AM and you have accepted love even when you feel unworthy. Spare yourself the pain of worldly love by looking through fear and releasing yourself into the whole of the all. There is no other and so no object to which to attach your love. The need for attachment and approval gives way to joy.