Gently...

Last night

I begged the wise one to tell me

the secret of the world.

Gently, gently he whispered, 

"Be quiet, 

The secret cannot be spoken, 

It is wrapped in silence." 

Rumi

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rise and fall

Let the waves of the universe rise 

and fall as they will. 

You have nothing to gain or lose. 

You are the ocean.

Ashtavakra Gita

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Love is...

Love is something that is new, fresh, alive.

It has no yesterday and no tomorrow.

It is beyond the turmoil of thought.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, 

and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.  

To find this extraordinary thing which man has sought

endlessly through sacrifice, through worship,

through relationship, through sex,

through every form of pleasure and pain, 

is only possible when thought

comes to understand itself

and comes naturally to an end.

Then love has no opposite,

then love has no conflict.   

J. Krishnamurti 

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You are the only student you have

You are the only

 faithful student you have.

All the others leave eventually.

Have you been making yourself shallow

with making others eminent?

Just remember, when you're in union, 

you don't have to fear

that you'll be drained. 

The command comes to speak,

and you feel the ocean 

moving through you.  

Then comes, Be silent, 

as when the rain stops, 

and the trees in the orchard

begin to draw moisture

up into themselves. 

Rumi

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barriers

Your task is not to seek for love, 

but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself

that you have built against it.

Rumi

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