tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62385603280568597182024-03-12T17:49:11.611-07:00LoveANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.comBlogger1210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-49540115293125256132019-01-10T08:38:00.002-08:002019-01-10T08:39:15.728-08:00I want to love with a capital L......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>My greatest desire in all the world is to hold and be held,<br />to Connect with a capital C.<br /><br />To heal and be healed.<br />To see and be seen. <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />To love and be loved----fully. Completely.<br /><br />Here I am....shouting it out to the world,<br />to all who read or don't read my words.<br />To all who take the time to connect. Or not.<br /><br />I want to love with a capital L.<br />I want to crack wide open all that stands<br />in the way of true Truth and true<br />Love and True Colors.<br /><br />I want to to hold your heart in mine<br />like it is my own. Because, really, it is.<br /><br />Will you let me hold your heart in mine<br />just for a minute<br />just for one beautiful breath<br />or two?<br /><br />I so want you to know how deeply<br />how very deeply<br />I Love<br />every single bit<br />of colorful you..!</span></b></div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-71035852757824450872018-07-12T07:50:00.000-07:002018-07-12T07:51:25.581-07:00Come back my Soul......by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Come back<br />My Soul,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>How much longer<br />will you linger <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />in the garden of deceit ?</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>I have sent you</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>a hundred messages</i></b></span></div>
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<b><i>I have shown you</i></b><br />
<b><i>a hundred ways</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Either you</i></b><br />
<b><i>never read them</i></b></div>
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<b><i>or you</i></b><br />
<b><i>ignore my advice.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Come back</i></b><br />
<b><i>my soul,</i></b></div>
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<b><i>do not waste time</i></b><br />
<b><i>with the cold-hearted</i></b></div>
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<b><i>they do not know</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Why do you seek water</i></b><br />
<b><i>when you are the stream ?</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Have you forgotten?</i></b><br />
<b><i>You are the king's falcon,</i></b></div>
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<b><i>You are a ray</i></b><br />
<b><i>of the Beloved,</i></b></div>
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<b><i>a divine wonder.....!</i></b></div>
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<b><i>~ Rumi</i></b><br />
<b><i>From Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit</i></b><br />
<b><i>Art by Rassouli</i></b></div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-49411855611559615822018-07-12T07:37:00.000-07:002018-07-12T07:44:21.890-07:00When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back......by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">When love itself <br />comes to kiss you,</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">don't hold back! <br /><br /><br />When the king</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Now the king has become the place</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">and all the players, prey, bystander,</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">bow, arrow, hand and release. <br />How </span><span style="color: #999999;">does that feel? <br /><br /><br />Last night's dream</span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">enters these open eyes. <br /><br /><br />When we die</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">and turn to dust, each particle will</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">be the whole. <br /><br />You hear a mote whirl</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">taking form? <br /><br /><br />My music. Love, calm,</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">patient. <br /><br /><br />The Friend has waded down</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #999999;">into existence, <br />gotten stuck, and </span><span style="color: #999999;">will not be seen <br />again outside of</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">this. <br /><br /><br />We sometimes make spiderwebs</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">of smoke and saliva, fragile thought -</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">packets. <br /><br /><br />Leave thinking to the one</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">who gave intelligence . <br /><br /><br />In silence</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">there is eloquence. <br /><br /><br />Stop weaving,</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">and watch how the pattern improves.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">~ Rumi</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">from <i>the soul of Rumi</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">translations by Coleman Barks</span></b></span></div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-63942313372726867542018-02-26T02:33:00.001-08:002018-02-26T02:33:32.387-08:00What a blessing ! What a blessing !.........by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Don’t hide.<br />The site of your face<br />is a blessing.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Wherever you place your foot <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />there rests a blessing.</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Even your shadow passing over me like swift bird,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">is a blessing.</span></i></b></div>
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The great Spring has come.<br />
Your sweet air blowing through the city,<br />
the country, the gardens and the desert,<br />
is a blessing.</div>
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He has come with love to our door,<br />
his knock is a blessing.</div>
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We go from house to house asking of him,<br />
any answer is a blessing.</div>
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Caught in this body<br />
we look for a sight of the soul.</div>
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Remember what the Beloved said,<br />
one sight is a blessing.</div>
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The leaf of every tree brings<br />
a message from the unseen world.</div>
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Look,<br />
every falling leaf is a blessing.</div>
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All of nature swings in unison<br />
singing without tongues<br />
listening without ears,<br />
what a Blessing.</div>
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O Soul<br />
the four elements are your face<br />
Water, wind, fire and earth<br />
Each one is a blessing.</div>
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Once the seed of faith takes root,<br />
it cannot be blown away,<br />
even by the strongest wind<br />
Now that's a blessing.</div>
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I bow to you<br />
for the dust of your feet<br />
is the crown on my head</div>
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And as i walk towards you<br />
every step i take is a blessing.</div>
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His form appeared before me<br />
just now as i was singing this poem</div>
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I Swear<br />
What a blessing ! What a blessing !</div>
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Every vision born of earth is fleeting<br />
Every vision born of heaven is a blessing</div>
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For People<br />
the sight of spring warms their hearts</div>
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For Fish<br />
the rhythm of ocean is blessing</div>
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The brilliant sun that shines in every heart<br />
for heaven's earth and all creatures<br />
What a blessing !</div>
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The heart can't wait to speak of this ecstasy<br />
The soul is kissing the earth saying<br />
Oh God what a blessing !</div>
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Fill me with shine of your silence<br />
Let it soak my every pore</div>
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For the inner splendor it reveals<br />
Is a blessing<br />
Is a blessing.</div>
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~ Rumi<br />
From The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi<br />
By Andrew Harvey</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-82472235007205329102017-10-04T07:41:00.001-07:002017-10-04T07:41:25.198-07:00Sorrow prepares you for joy.......by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Sorrow<br />prepares you for joy.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />It violently sweeps <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />everything out of your house,<br />so that new joy can find space to enter.</span></i></b></span></div>
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It shakes the yellow leaves<br />from the bough of your heart,<br />so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.</div>
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It pulls up<br />the rotten roots,<br />so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.</div>
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Whatever sorrow<br />shakes from your heart,<br />far better things will take their place.</div>
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~ Rumi</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-84988301134569730392017-10-04T06:43:00.002-07:002017-10-04T06:47:18.102-07:00let it go.....by e.e. cummings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">let it go – the<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />smashed word broken<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />open vow or<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />the oath cracked length<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />wise – let it go it<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />was sworn to<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />go</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">let them go – the<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />truthful liars and<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />the false fair friends<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />and the boths and<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />neithers – you must let them go they<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />were born<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />to go</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">let all go – the<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />big small middling<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />tall bigger really<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />the biggest and all<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />things – let all go<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />dear</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">so comes love</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">~ <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">e.e. cummings </span></i></b></span></div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-26237204667718730342016-10-12T07:48:00.003-07:002016-10-12T07:48:26.389-07:00Having nothing and wanting nothing............by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Last night</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty<br />Having nothing and wanting nothing.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I am a naked man<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />standing inside a mine of Rubies<br />clothed in red silk</span></span></i></b></div>
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I absorb the shining<br />and now i see the ocean</div>
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billion of simultaneous motions<br />moving in me</div>
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A circle of lovely quite people<br />becomes the ring on my finger</div>
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Then the wind and thunder of rain on the way<br />I have such a teacher.</div>
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~ Rumi</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-2626463126976144932016-09-24T06:32:00.002-07:002016-09-24T06:32:12.223-07:00Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu ,Buddhist, sufi, or zen.......by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Not Christian or Jew or Muslim,<br />not Hindu ,Buddhist, sufi, or zen.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Not any religion<br />or cultural system.</span></i></b></div>
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I am not from the East or the West,<br />not out of the ocean or up from the ground,<br />not natural or ethereal,<br />not composed of elements at all.</div>
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I do not exist,<br />am not an entity in this world or in the next,</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">did not descend from Adam and Eve</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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or any origin story.</div>
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My place is placeless,<br />a trace of the traceless.<br />Neither body or soul.</div>
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I belong to the beloved,<br />have seen the two worlds as one<br />and that one call to and know,</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-15125997498935265652016-09-24T06:09:00.002-07:002016-09-24T06:09:42.362-07:00My Prayer......by Rabindranath Tagore <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">THIS is my prayer to thee,<br />my lord - strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart.</span></i></b></div>
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Give me the strength<br />lightly to bear my joys and sorrows.</div>
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Give me the strength<br />to make my love fruitful in service.</div>
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Give me the strength<br />never to disown the poor<br />or bend my knees before insolent might.</div>
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Give me the strength<br />to raise my mind high above daily trifles.</div>
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And give me the strength<br />to surrender my strength to thy will with love.</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-46876376617544015532016-09-24T06:04:00.000-07:002016-09-24T06:04:03.526-07:00THE GRASP OF YOUR HAND.....by Rabindranath Tagore <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Let me not crave<br />in anxious fear to be saved<br />But hope for the patience to win my freedom</div>
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Grant me that I may not be a coward ,<br />feeling your mercy in my success alone;<br />But let me find the grasp of Your hand in my failure.</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-76924976508206223912016-08-20T06:36:00.000-07:002016-08-20T06:36:18.949-07:00WHEN SPACE IS NOT RATIONED....by Hafiz <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #073763; font-size: small;">'Look dear, I am home<br />Space is no longer being rationed.'</span></i></b></div>
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For a while you might feel<br />I am complete,</div>
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Somewhere where the mind cradles light,<br />Where the only senses that remain<br />Blush and stumble</div>
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If they try to speak with our language so new<br />It is still trying to Invent,</div>
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Still shaping<br />Its first intelligible sound,<br />Still sculpting its first true image of<br />God."</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-79974146264444852512016-08-20T04:52:00.000-07:002016-08-20T04:52:39.032-07:00I KNOW I WAS THE WATER.....By Hafiz <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Who can believe the divine kindness of God?<br />Who can comprehend what happens when<br />Separation ends?</div>
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I know I was a tree that stood near,<br />Leaned down and took notes.</div>
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Pilgrim,<br />If it is in your wish, you will someday see<br />You sat inside of Hafiz</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-9592053093251314432016-05-23T07:50:00.002-07:002016-05-23T07:50:59.802-07:00I lean as close to your body with my words As I can.......by Hafez <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6;">I lean as close to your body with my words<br />As I can</span></i></b></div>
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And I think of you all the time, dear pilgrim.</div>
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Because the One I love goes with you<br />Wherever you go,<br />Hafiz will always be near.</div>
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If you sat before me, wayfarer,<br />With your aura bright from your many<br />Charms,</div>
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My lips could resist rushing to you and needing<br />To befriend your blushed cheek,</div>
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But my eyes can no longer hide<br />The wondrous fact of who<br />You Really are.</div>
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The Beautiful One whom I adore<br />Has pitched His royal tent inside of you,</div>
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So I will always lean my heart<br />As close to your soul<br />As I can.</div>
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~ Hafez<br />“The Woman I Love” by Hafiz,<br />translated by Daniel Ladinsky<br />from The Subject Tonight is Love by Daniel Ladinsky,<br />published by Penguin Compass. Copyright © 2003 by Daniel Ladinsky</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-88503931317104882632016-05-23T07:42:00.003-07:002016-05-23T07:42:46.556-07:00The Ambience of Love......by Hafez <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Some wield their<br />Clubs,</div>
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Tonight is worthy of music.</div>
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Let's get loose<br />With<br />Compassion,</div>
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Let's drown in the delicious<br />Ambience of<br />Love.</div>
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~ Hafiz<br />"The Ambience of Love"<br />from The Gift<br />Translations by Daniel Ladinsky</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-26374013032841539932016-04-15T05:01:00.000-07:002016-04-15T05:01:07.540-07:00I have made the journey into Nothing......by Hafiz<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6;">I have made the journey into Nothing.<br />I have lit that lamp that<br />Needs no oil.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6;">I have cried great streams<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />Of emerald crystals<br />On my scarred knees, begging love</span></span></i></b></div>
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To never again let me hear from<br />Any world</div>
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The sound of my own name,<br />Even from the voice of divine thought</div>
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Or see that pen you gave me, God,<br />In the sun's or sky's skillful hand<br />Writing<br />Anything other than the word<br />ONE.</div>
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I have made the journey into Nothing<br />I have become the flame that needs<br />No fuel.</div>
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Beloved,<br />Now what need is there to ever<br />Call for Hafiz?</div>
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For if you did,<br />I would just step out<br />of YOU.</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-44842504888727651092015-11-13T08:45:00.004-08:002015-11-13T08:45:56.143-08:00Imagine by John Lennon <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">Imagine there's no heaven<br />It's easy if you try<br />No hell below us<br />Above us only sky</span></i></b></div>
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Imagine all the people<br />Living for today...<br />Imagine there's no countries<br />It isn't hard to do</div>
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Nothing to kill or die for<br />And no religion too<br />Imagine all the people<br />Living life in peace...</div>
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You may say I'm a dreamer<br />But I'm not the only one<br />I hope someday you'll join us<br />And the world will be as one</div>
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Imagine no possessions<br />I wonder if you can<br />No need for greed or hunger<br />A brotherhood of man<br />Imagine all the people<br />Sharing all the world...</div>
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You may say I'm a dreamer<br />But I'm not the only one<br />I hope someday you'll join us<br />And the world will live as one</div>
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~ John Lennon - Imagine</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-90202527645001812512015-11-13T08:37:00.001-08:002015-11-13T08:37:25.967-08:00The Light is the soul's food....by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">Intelligence is the feast, not bread and roast meat:<br />the light of intelligence, my son, is the soul’s food.<br />Man has no food but the Light<br />the soul doesn’t obtain nourishment from anything but that.</span></i></b></div>
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Little by little cut yourself off from these material foods—<br />for they are the food of an ass, not that of a free man—<br />so that you might become capable<br />of absorbing that original food<br />and become accustomed to eating delicate morsels of Light.</div>
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It’s from the reflection of that Light<br />that this bread has become bread;<br />it’s from the overflowing of that rational soul<br />that this animal soul has become soul.</div>
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Once you eat of the Light<br />you won’t be attached to the bread and oven.</div>
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~ Rumi<br />( Mathnawi IV : 1954-1959 )<br />From The Rumi Daybook</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-60842247085192571052015-10-25T03:33:00.002-07:002015-10-25T03:33:39.615-07:00My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you......by Rumi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">My heart, sit only with those<br />who know and understand you.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">Sit only under a tree<br />that is full of blossoms.</span></b></div>
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In the bazaar of herbs and potions,<br />don't wander aimlessly --<br />find the shop with a potion that is sweet.</div>
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If you don't have a measure<br />people will rob you in no time.</div>
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You will take counterfeit coins<br />thinking they are real.</div>
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Don't fill your bowl with food<br />from every boiling pot you see.</div>
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Not every joke is humorous, so don't search<br />for meaning where there is none.</div>
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Not every eye can see,<br />not every sea is full of pearls.</div>
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My heart, sing the song of longing<br />like nightingale.</div>
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The sound of your voice casts a spell<br />on every stone, on every thorn.</div>
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First, lay down your head<br />then one by one<br />let go of all distractions.</div>
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Embrace the light and let it guide you<br />beyond the winds of desire.</div>
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There you will find a spring<br />and nourished by its sea waters<br />like a tree you will bear fruit forever.</div>
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~ Rumi<br />Rumi. "The Hidden Music."<br />Trans. by Maryam Mafi & Azima Melita Kolin</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-55429340911751383522015-09-10T03:16:00.000-07:002015-09-10T03:16:05.796-07:00In the realm of lovers There is only one beloved.....by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">In the realm of lovers<br />There is only one beloved</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">In this realm of lovers<br />There is no coming nor going</span></b></div>
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Lovers wander<br />Looking for each other</div>
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There is no need for this wandering<br />The soul of lovers Lives in a place beyond time</div>
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The one beloved<br />Searching for herself in the other</div>
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Let us become passionate lovers</div>
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Lovers in life<br />Lovers in death<br />Lovers in the tomb<br />Lovers on the day of resurrection<br />Lovers in paradise<br />Lovers forever</div>
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If you have not known this love<br />don’t count your life as lived<br />On the Day of Judgment<br />it will not be counted</div>
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There is a bazaar<br />Where love is traded for free</div>
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There is a river of wine<br />Where drunken merriment knows no rest<br />Where burning passion knows no repose<br />Where billions of galaxies dance<br />Where restless lovemaking<br />Gives birth to universe upon universe</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-25661405434341437872015-07-21T05:43:00.000-07:002015-07-21T05:43:57.532-07:00Oh how nameless, how free I am......by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Oh how nameless, how free I am!<br />When will I see myself as I really am?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Tell me your secrets here and now, you said.<br />In this realm, I said, where is the here and now?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">How can my soul be still</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">when I am whirling in stillness?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">My sea drowned in itself.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">What a wondrous, shoreless sea I am!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Not in this world, not in the next I am.<br />Where I am, both worlds disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Naught, I am free of profit and loss.<br />How singular, I neither gain nor lose.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">I said: My Soul, you’re the light of my eyes.<br />Where I am, he said, no need for eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">That’s what you are, I said. Stop it!<br />he said. No words can capture me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">I said: Since you are more than tongue can tell,<br />behold how eloquent I am without a tongue.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Like the moon, without legs, I race through nothingness.<br />See how fast I can run without legs!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">A voice called: Why so fast?<br />Look into the hidden, find my true face.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">The moment I saw my Beloved<br />I became a treasure, a gem, the rare pearl of the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">~ Rumi</span></div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-77253747349008848222015-02-14T02:36:00.001-08:002015-02-14T02:36:41.003-08:00I SAW TWO BIRDS....by Hafiz <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;"><b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Both of our mouths<br />Can fit upon this flute I carry.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;"><b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">My music will sound<br />So much sweeter that way<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />With your breath and my breath<br />Poking each other in the ribs<br />And kissing.</span></i></b></span></div>
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I saw two birds on a limb this morning<br />Laughing with the sun.<br />They reminded me of how<br />We will one day exist.</div>
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My dear,<br />Keep thinking about God,<br />Keep thinking about the Beloved<br />And soon our nest will be the<br />Whole firmament.</div>
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Forget about all your desires for truth,<br />We have gone far beyond that.<br />For now it is just<br />Pure need.</div>
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Both our hearts are meant to sing.<br />Both our souls are destined to touch<br />And kiss<br />Upon this holy flute<br />God carries.</div>
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~ Hafiz<br />The Gift</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-10410600259632157432015-02-14T02:20:00.000-08:002015-02-14T02:20:19.717-08:00This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings So love, love, love. ~ Hafiz<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">“This place where you are right now,<br />God circled on a map for you.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">”One regret, dear world,<br />That I am determined not to have<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />When I am lying on my deathbed<br />Is that<br />I did not kiss you enough.”</span></b></span></div>
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“I should not make any promises right now,<br />But I know if you<br />Pray<br />Somewhere in this world –<br />Something good will happen.”</div>
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“I wish I could show you,<br />When you are lonely or in the darkness,<br />The Astonishing Light<br />Of your own Being!”</div>
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“This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings<br />So love, love, love.”</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-52989116362315920102014-12-11T02:25:00.000-08:002014-12-11T02:25:15.076-08:00City of Love.....by Rumi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">I’ve travelled around<br />raced through every city<br />while I knew all along<br />no place could be found<br />like the city of love</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">If I could have known</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">to value what I owned</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">I would not have suffered</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">like a fool</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">the life of a vagabond</span></b></div>
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I’ve heard many tunes<br />
all over the globe<br />
all empty<br />
as a kettledrum<br />
except the music of love</div>
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it was the sound of<br />
that hollow drum<br />
that made me fall<br />
from the heavens<br />
to this mortal life</div>
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i used to soar<br />
among souls<br />
like a heart’s flight<br />
winglessly roaming and<br />
celestially happy</div>
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i used to drink<br />
like a flower that drinks<br />
without lips or throat<br />
of the wine that overflows<br />
with laughter and joy</div>
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Suddenly<br />
I was summoned by love<br />
to prepare for a journey<br />
to the temple of<br />
suffering</div>
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I cried desperately<br />
I begged and pleaded<br />
and shredded my clothes<br />
not to be sent<br />
to this world</div>
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Just the way I fear now<br />
going away<br />
to the other world<br />
I was frightened then<br />
to make my descent</div>
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Love asked me to go<br />
with no fear to be alone<br />
promising to be close<br />
everywhere I go<br />
closer than my veins</div>
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Love threw its spell<br />
its magic and allure<br />
using coyness and charm<br />
I was totally sold and<br />
bought everything with joy</div>
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Who am I to resist<br />
love’s many tricks<br />
and not to fall<br />
while the whole world<br />
takes love’s bait</div>
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Love showed me<br />
a path but then<br />
lost me on the way<br />
if I could have resisted<br />
I would have found my way</div>
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I can show you my friend<br />
surely how you can get there<br />
but here and now<br />
my pen has broken down<br />
before telling you how.</div>
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~ Rumi<br />
Art by Rassouli</div>
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ANDY LALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01141610123030233739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238560328056859718.post-36143724019972377082014-11-24T12:50:00.000-08:002014-12-11T02:20:18.830-08:00Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. ~ Max Ehrmann<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,<br />and remember what peace there may be in silence.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">As far as possible, without surrender,<br />be on good terms with all persons.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">Speak your truth quietly and clearly;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">and listen to others,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">even to the dull and the ignorant;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">they too have their story.</span></b></div>
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Avoid loud and aggressive persons;<br />
they are vexatious to the spirit.</div>
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If you compare yourself with others,<br />
you may become vain or bitter,<br />
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.</div>
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Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.<br />
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;<br />
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.</div>
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Exercise caution in your business affairs,<br />
for the world is full of trickery.</div>
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But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;<br />
many persons strive for high ideals,<br />
and everywhere life is full of heroism.</div>
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Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.<br />
Neither be cynical about love,<br />
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,<br />
it is as perennial as the grass.</div>
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Take kindly the counsel of the years,<br />
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.</div>
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Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.<br />
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.<br />
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.</div>
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Beyond a wholesome discipline,<br />
be gentle with yourself.</div>
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You are a child of the universe<br />
no less than the trees and the stars;<br />
you have a right to be here.</div>
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And whether or not it is clear to you,<br />
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.</div>
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Therefore be at peace with God,<br />
whatever you conceive Him to be.</div>
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And whatever your labors and aspirations,<br />
in the noisy confusion of life,<br />
keep peace in your soul.</div>
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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,<br />
it is still a beautiful world.<br />
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.</div>
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~ Max Ehrmann</div>
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