Harmony

Christian Island 1 (2013, 9.21), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Don't grieve.

Anything you lose comes around in another form.

Rumi

We

Toronto 5 (8.31, 2013), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

This is I, You, Me, We. 

Rumi

Wisdom

RCC_0767, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Bury your secret in the chamber of your heart.

Your unknown desire will burgeon.

Drop seeds to the bowels of the earth,

And the garden will spring beyond belief.

Rumi

World

RIC_7741-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.

Its presence is more beautiful than the stars,

With more clarity

Than the polished mirror of your heart.

Rumi

Truth

RIC_7937-2 , a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Truth lifts the heart,
Like water refreshes thirst.

Rumi

Fall in love

RCC_6335-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Fall in love in such a way 
that it frees you from any connecting. 

Rumi

Presence

Sunset 1 (2013,1.31), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.

They're in each other all along.

Rumi

In each other

_DSC7173, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

Rumi

You are here to stay

RIC_9057-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     How does an essence of the world
     Leave the world?
     How does wetness leave water?
     Don't even try.
     You are here to stay.

       Rumi

Doorway to God

RC1_6161, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The wailing of broken heart is the doorway to God.

Rumi

The light, not the lamp

RCC_9556, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Worship the light, not the lamp.
     The lamps are different, the light is the same.
     It comes from the Beyond.
      
       Rumi

Time to think

RCC_0186
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Sit down and be quiet.

You are drunk, and this is the

edge of the roof.

Rumi

Beauty

RCC_6681
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Today like every other day we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Rumi, The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne

New Life

RCC_3301
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

My boat strikes something deep.
At first sounds of silence, waves.
Nothing has happened;
Or perhaps everything has happened
And I am sitting in my new life.

Rumi

Cup of Clay

   You say you can't create something original? Don't
   worry about it. Make a cup of clay so your brother
   can drink.

     Rumi