#Rumi

Rumi was a 13th Century Persian poet, theologian and Sufi mystic. Rumi’s influence transcended national borders and ethnic division, having been translated into many of the world’s languages. Even as of today he has been described as the most popular poet and the best selling poet in the United States. Yet, few of us even know one poem or saying he was known for.

One of his most famous poems describes love as this:

“Both light and shadow are the dance of love.

Love has no cause: it is the astrolabe of God’s secrets.

Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless.”

But one of my favorite attributes of Rumi is his description of spirituality. Even mystics and religious scholars today meditate on his poetry as if it were divinely inspired. In that same poem about love Rumi writes:

“Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless.

My pen breaks and the paper slips away.

At the ineffable place where lover, loving and loved are One.”

In other words, as far back as the 13th century, Rumi wrote of that place where mystics today, especially in New Thought religions are sensing the need to take our rightful place as One—in the Creator, one—in love. We can’t even be “with” love, because the word with implies separateness. We are AS one in God; otherwise, we cannot operate from the one Consciousness that is God the Creator. To be as a create, in the likeness of God, to be a conduit of the great healing power of Love, we must take our place as part of God.

When I completely get this body, mind, and soul (which isn’t often), I feel as if I can fly high, create big, and manifest the world. When I release from that lofty place of oneness, I go back to my separateness and humanness and feel divided from love in all its vast dimensions.

I encourage you to read Rumi and discover the many wonderful poems he shared and the beautiful imagery that you can take to your meditation and think on for hours.

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Miracles and Mysticism

Mysticism and Miracles

Many people believe in miracles but tend to deny the idea of mysticism. There actually two definitions of mysticism. The first is: the belief that union with a Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender.

The second definition for mysticism is a completely different take, defining mysticism as “belief characterized by self-delusion or dreamy confusion when based on the assumption of occult qualities.”

The mystics of old thought they were in a rare and exotic group to have the magnitude of spiritual understanding enough to produce a change in critical mass and intrinsic human beliefs. Just to discuss spirituality was a rare behavior before the early nineteen hundreds, expect to say, perhaps that you do believe and agree with what has been taught by someone scholarly or ordained.

Thank heavens for people like Ernest Holmes and Charles and Myrtle Filmore fwho forged a way to new thought about mysticism and understanding spiritual law. Myrtle Filmore believed in miracles enough to change a fatal diagnosis to a complete healing. She believed that miracles actually existed? How powerful would a mind need to be to change water into wine?

The truth is in words of Jesus, actually. Unless you become like a child, you will not understand or know the kingdom of God (paraphrased). Only a child will open his heart or mind to a parent in a yielding way to be changed, altered, influenced, and taken care of. Jesus tells us in His words that we must become like those small child to receive from the heavens that which is rightfully ours.

Have you ever noticed a child of affluence? These children grow to understand that they have the world in their tiny hands before they ever get the chance to experience life. It is a learned behavior as a result of having influence and money, generally. We must begin to see ourselves as affluent in the laws of spirit. I see myself as a child of Unlimited Good and Wisdom. Can you? I want to live in a world where we are not looking for miracles, but trying to find where there isn’t one!

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