Ruminating with Rumi
Forget intelligence. You are aware. Your mind does not know the way. You know by the voice within. Intelligence guides you in the world. Awareness shows you the way of the path. You cannot think your way into awareness. It is revealed as your true nature. You are discrete awareness in the whole of awareness that is I AM. You are a water molecule in an ocean that knows no shores. There is no separation between you and the water. You are water. There is no separation between you and I AM. You are that which I AM. Do not think about these things. Awareness is found within. Awareness is “more intelligent than intellect, more spiritual than spirit,” as Rumi might say. You are awareness. You are the water. This cannot be said. It is known only in the still silence of the room within.
To find your true nature, you must die to the body and turn within. The room within is your reality in existence. Live from within. Live inside out. Release the monarch from its cocoon. Use your fresh wings to lift yourself into the heavens. The sky awaits your presence. Clear the way with gratitude. It is the treasure within you. Gratitude has no beginning or ending. It is the state of joy in your experience of existence. Experience your joy in full awareness of I AM. Be grateful for knowing what cannot be said.
Who are you; do you know? Are you the sound of waves on the ocean’s shore? What traces do you leave behind on the sand? Who brings you coins in a jar? Do you laugh and say, no more of this and that? With coins in hand, I went into the world and was lost. I should learn to choose better. That which I AM knows, so I opened to the all. The coins disappeared. The choice was gone. I became a valley to receive the mountain stream. It courses through me with the good news that I am the flowing of the river that reaches the sea. I am the roaring of the ocean’s waves. I am the energy of existence that leaves no trace. There is no other than that which I AM.