Mirrors, mirrors, everywhere

[seeking_brilliance]

((some listening music...)) 

 

Mirrors, mirrors,

Everywhere I see.

Everywhere I look, 

I only see me.

 

Mirrors, mirrors,

Within and without,

Reflecting an image

Which cannot be let out. 

 

Mirrors, mirrors, 

 Sometimes I forget, 

 If the image I see, 

 Is me, or nyet. 

 

Mirrors, mirrors, 

Never lonely, never two. 

The way of the heart, 

Is through. 

 

Mirrors, mirrors, 

Everywhere I see. 

Could what looks back

Actually be me? 

 

 

 

 

 

[SoonHei]

@seeking_brilliance love it ?♥️

[seeking_brilliance]

@SoonHei awesome, hope it brought some joy  

[mandyjw]

@seeking_brilliance

I just read this by Rumi today. 

What is the mirror of being?
Non-being. Always bring a mirror of non-existence
As a gift. Any other present is foolish.
Let the poor man look deep into generosity.
Let bread see a hungry man.
Let kindling behold a spark from the flint.

An empty mirror and your worst destructive habits,
When they are held up to each other,
That's when the real making begins.
That's what art and crafting are.

A tailor needs a torn garment to practice his expertise.
The trunks of trees must be cut and cut again So they can be used for carpentry.
Your doctor must have a broken leg to doctor.
Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested.
Whoever sees clearly what's diseased in himself
Begins to gallop on the way.

There is nothing worse
Than thinking you are well enough.
More than anything, self-complacency
Blocks the workmanship.

Put your vileness up to a mirror and weep.
Get that self-satisfaction flowing out of you!
Satan thought, "I am better than Adam"
And that "better than" is still strongly in us.
Your stream water may look clean,
But there's unstirred matter on the bottom.
Your sheikh can dig a side channel
That will drain that waste off.

Trust your wound to a teacher's surgery.
Flies collect on a wound. They cover it,
Those flies of your self-protecting feelings,
Your love for what you think is yours.
Let a teacher wave away the flies
And put a plaster on the wound.

Don't turn your head. Keep looking
At the bandaged place. That's where
The light enters you.
And don't believe for a moment
That you're healing yourself.

~ Rumi

[Shin]

I'm a simple God

I see Rumi

I press

Edited January 11, 2020 by Shin

[seeking_brilliance]

21 hours ago, SoonHei said:

@seeking_brilliance

@mandyjw ❣️ he's so poetic ❣️ thanks for sharing

@Shin I'm glad God likes Rumi ?‍♂️ ? I hadn't really ever read anything by him before, what do you suggest? 

[Shin]

9 hours ago, seeking_brilliance said:

@mandyjw ❣️ he's so poetic ❣️ thanks for sharing

@Shin I'm glad God likes Rumi ?‍♂️ ? I hadn't really ever read anything by him before, what do you suggest? 

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[seeking_brilliance]

@mandyjw nice synchronicity, just noticed that ?