Seeking Love, by Rumi

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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What you Really Love

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Let yourself be silently drawn 

by the strange pull of what you really love. 

It will not lead you astray.

Rumi

Jelaluddin Rumi  lived during the 13th century. He was a theologian with his own divinity school. At age 37, through a relationship with a dervish monk, Shams, Rumi began to transform his being, and in the process, to write some of the most beautiful mystical poetry ever written.  

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Bird of Paradise

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You and your shadow are forever present in this world.

You are that glorious Bird of Paradise.

~ Rumi

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Grace

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Through your Grace
I have found a treasure within myself.

I have found the Truth of the Unseen World.

~ Rumi ♥
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This world is a mountain

photo by Catherine Todd, Antigua, Guatemala 2006

photo by Catherine Todd, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala 2010

This world is a mountain,

in which your works

are echoed back to you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Everything comes round again...

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Under the volcanoes, La Antigua Guatemala 2006, by Catherine Todd

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

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That which God said

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 Artwork Copyright Ann Baranowski 2011

That which God said to the rose,
and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,
He said to my heart,
and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

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Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Jewels of Remembrance : A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance: Containing 365 Selections from the Wisdom of Rumi (1996

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