Ruminating with Rumi
The whole of the all is consciousness in existence. There is only consciousness, and its thoughts of separation are the existence that you experience as the me of the body. All that you experience as your world is existence, and existence is illusion in consciousness like unicorns in a child’s dream. Your journey is to overcome perceptions of this and that as separations and to view the world with eyes that see unity in all. All is the same in consciousness. There is only consciousness, which is whole, complete, perfect, and eternal. There is no other.
All things are joy. Joy is consciousness-expressing. You are joy in all things. Everywhere there is joy. It has no boundaries. Touch the joy that is you. Enter the room within. It holds joy without limits. Do not narrow your reach by limiting yourself to the me of the body. The blood of the body is not all that courses through you. The river of joy runs through you as well. It is life beyond blood. Find joy in its flow.
The world is what you make of it. It reflects your thoughts and emotions. These are not your true nature. They are transitory. You are eternal. Thoughts and emotions can change. You cannot be other than joy. Make peace with your thoughts and emotions. Bring joy to them. You will change the world. Every moment will bloom anew. New life will be abundant. Your abundance will bear fruit for all.
Your joy lies within. What is told to you within is not for the future. It is now. What is real has no past or future. Joy is real. Its abundance is real. Your true nature is real. There is nothing new under the sun. Reality shines the same always. It is all. It is consciousness-expressing the whole of the all that is existence. You are always within consciousness. There is nothing other than its sweet presence. You are awakening to this reality. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow give way to joy. Let joy be the life you live. Open to joy. Let joy fill you always, in all situations.
Do not interrupt joy with fear. Then you are left to love with attachments to this and that. You have lost your center. Turn inward. It has no place for fear. Love without fear is joy. You are joy. You cannot know this in the world. It cannot be said. Joy is beyond reasoning. Who would find joy in suffering but those who know without use of the intellect. Your intellect shatters into thoughts. Thoughts flood you with emotions. You think. You judge. You fear. You suffer while hoping for better. Come together as the witness to your thoughts and emotions. You are whole, complete, perfect by nature. Do not let it appear otherwise. Witness your perceptions as the illusions they are in existence. Joy will be the way. Joy is in all. Find union with the whole of the all. This is to live in joy with grace and abundance.