Ruminating with Rumi
Release the me of the body. Find harmony in the whole of the all. Surrender to your true nature. You are that which I AM. I AM consciousness-expressing. I AM consciousness in existence.
Release the me of the body. Resonate with I AM. Enter the room within. The doorway stands before you, but you cannot see it through the dust of the world. Judgment and hope shroud your view. Enter into the moment. Remove the veils of desire. See before you that which awaits your entry.
At the center of existence is I AM. The place of your true being is an emptiness that is nowhere. This is the room within. You cannot name the emptiness, except to call it consciousness. It has no distinctions to describe or compare. You enter and know without words. Words are dust billowing on the path that leads within. Blow these words off the page. Sweep them into the bin. Clear the way for entry.
There is no place in the moment for judgment and hope. Desire must be left at the threshold. Keep moving toward the doorway, though you never left the room within. You cannot return to where you are. You have no place to go in the moment. It awaits only the return of your awareness. You are discreet awareness in the whole of awareness that is I AM.
After you release judgment, hope, and desire, release the fear that gave them legs. Break the attachment of separation. Walk into the light carrying nothing. You are entering the circle of joy where love has no fear. In the circle of joy, you are spiraling out of the dream. You are awakening to reality. You are held by the embrace. The embrace holds you in love by grace alone.
Find joy in the midst of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Disappear into the emptiness of I AM. You are broken open. Let joy and wisdom spew forth without fear or desire. This is the way of the path. Live in the world without boundaries. You know the truth and knowing sets you free.
To be free, awaken. To be awake in the world is to know the whole of the all, to know that all is consciousness in existence. Consciousness in existence is I AM. There is no other than I AM. The enormity of your reality is unimaginable. You are not sacred or divine. You are not common or mundane. These are words of separation where there is none. You are the whole of the all. You encompass all. You are that which I AM.
You stand before the door knocking to get your own attention. There is no room within, no inside or outside. They are the dream of separation. The thought in consciousness of this and that. The emptiness of the room within embraces you as you enter. Sit in the still dark silence. You are infinite and eternal within consciousness. You are spacious and unending in the emptiness that is nowhere. You are the light of joy and wisdom. You are the breath that animates all. Do not deny your reality.