Thought of the Day

If you could give up tricks and cleverness

that would be the cleverest trick!

Rumi

Thought of the Day

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.

Rumi

Thought of the Day

Once you conquer your selfish self

All your darkness will change to light

Rumi

Thought of the Day

No better love than love with no object,

no more satisfying work than work with no purpose.

Rumi

Thought of the Day

Come to the orchard in spring.

There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers.

If you do not come, these do not matter.

If you do come, these do not matter.

Rumi

Quote of the Day

Today’s quote is dedicated to Lonesome George:

“We are the children and inheritors of a culture that has banished God to heaven.  Early Christianity persecuted and ultimately largely extinguished any earth-based spirituality, and the physical world became a place of darkness and sin.  Then after the age of Enlightenment, the prevailing world view that grew out of Newtonian physics framed the world as an inanimate mechanism we could easily master, indeed were meant to master; we simply needed to discover its laws to tame it to our own ends.  As a legacy of that view we have developed a materialistic culture that treats the earth as a commodity that exists to serve our own selfish purpose.  Our greed now walks with heavy boots across the world, with complete disregard for the sacred nature of creation.”

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Prayer of the Heart in Christian & Sufi Mysticism