Ruminating with Rumi
Put yourself before the mirror. It is a gift to look upon your character. You have much to consider. Your life is a carnival of events. There are many images to consider. Which one are you? You cannot know. They change so often. Are you this or that? Which of the many facades that you have worn do you trust to be you? Sort them out. Put your strengths to your left side. Place your accounts on the right. In front of you, place all whom you have encountered on your path. Look at them. They are your mirror. What do they reflect of you? Do you have the strength needed to take account of how you were with them? The mirror of the past reflects the ways of the world. Do you know now that this is not your way? The mirror of memories reflects your existence. It does not reveal your true nature. You are not defined by what the mirror reveals, for you cannot be described. In truth, you have no reflection because you have no distinctions. You cannot be described or compared. You are consciousness in existence. You are the whole of the all. You are I AM. There is no other. Stand before the mirror with joy on one side of you and wisdom on the other. This is the best you can know. Reflect joy and wisdom into the world. Doing so heals the pleasures and pains, happinesses and sorrows that formed the character of your existence. You will know your truth by the joy you feel. Joy will center you in the whole of the all. It is in the whole of the all that your true nature is reflected.
You are not the body. You are not the soul. You are the energy of existence. You are joy in the world. Awake each day to joy. Joy is your true nature. You know joy in the still silence of the room within. Release your body to joy. Feel its vibration in your soul. Surrender to joy in all. You are that which I AM, and I AM is joy. Joy is the harmony in the whole of the all. Joy is consciousness in existence. Joy is the river that flows from you to the sea. Bathe in the river of joy that flows through all. You are its source in the world. Do not deny your power to move mountains with joy. Joy can bring the mountain to Mohammed. The movement of mountains is joy’s energy in motion. You are joy in motion. Do not lie still in its presence. Arise and walk in the new day.