top of page
DSCN1031 copy strip.JPG
Search

"A Community of the Spirit" by Jelaluddin Rumi

Updated: Aug 16, 2020


There is a community of the spirit.

Join it, and feel the delight

of walking in the noisy street

and being the noise.

Drink all your passion,

and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes

to see with the other eye.

Open your hands,

if you want to be held.

Sit down in the circle.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel

the shepherd’s love filling you.

At night, your beloved wanders.

Don’t accept consolations.

Close your mouth against food.

Taste the lover’s mouth in yours.

You moan, “She left me.” “He left me.”

Twenty more will come.

Be empty of worrying.

Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison

when the door is so wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.

Live in silence.

Flow down and down in always

widening rings of being.

Photo courtesy of Ron Blaj


Oaxaca, November 2007. "Tiempo Sagrado" rehearsal. Photography Ron Blaj
 
 
 

Commentaires


Get notified when there's a new post on my blog + get my newsletter!

Thanks for subscribing!

My Latest News:

Check My Newsletter

Ilustración_sin_título logo azul corazon

© 2024 by Susana Laborde-Blaj 

Design & Photography Susana Laborde-Blaj

Additional Photography Santiago Beltran Laborde, Leon Beltran Laborde & Ron Blaj 

Scan My QR Code

Scan My QR code

  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
bottom of page