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Look at Love - a Poem by Rumi
look at love how it tangles
with the one fallen in love
look at spirit how it fuses with earth
giving it new life
why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad
pay attention to how things blend
why talk about all the known and the unknown
see how the unknown merges into the known
why think separately of this life and the next
when one is born from the last
look at your heart and tongue one feels but deaf and dumb
the other speaks in words and signs
look at water and fire earth and wind
enemies and friends all at once
the wolf and the lamb the lion and the deer
far away yet together
look at the unity of this spring and winter
manifested in the equinox
you too must mingle my friends since the earth and the sky
are mingled just for you and me
be like sugarcane sweet yet silent
don’t get mixed up with bitter words
my beloved grows right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be
"Perform good deeds and observe spiritual discipline.
Fool, listen with gratitude.
Lovers fasten your sandals.
The fool's youth slipped away unnoticed."
Rumi on Human Grief
Grief shows us something, it gives us something, because
grief is not nothing. It shows us that our way is the same way
as everybody else’s way, only different.
Grief makes us aware we are each like a wave in the ocean, slightly different from each other but not separate from the ocean, not separate from each other, part of a whole,
In grief’s love and loss together, we experience in our
own way what everyone else experiences in their own way.
This love and loss together can show us an awareness which
is common to all.
This awareness is irrespective of our culture, our tribe or any group we belong to. This awareness of being part of a whole, is awareness of what we are to each other.
“Conceive a strong and intense love for Sri Ram (God) —
the more intense your love for Him,
the more continuous and unbroken your remembrance becomes automatically;
because it is your nature to remember that which you love most.”
Swami Ramdas