Ruminating with Rumi
Choose peace of heart at each moment of your life. It is a choice you can make. You constantly choose what to hold in mind, so let it always be peace. Let peace light your way, for you are the way. There is no other.
You push in the world to be more of your true nature. You want to remember your true nature and release it in the world, but you are lost. You have slipped from the path and fallen into the brambles. How you got there is over except in your mind. There is no past except memory, so let it go. Control your memories and you control your past. Place your awareness in the present moment. Any thoughts you give to the future are only desires that create expectations that fuel pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Take hold of the moment. Do not give thought to the morrow. Tomorrow can tend to itself. Act in the moment without desire and hope. Return to the path. Mistakes are unexpected, so expect them. You will learn and grow. Why curse and struggle when you can walk the way of the path with peace of heart?