{"id":430,"date":"2010-05-15T10:36:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T17:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2010-05-15T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T17:53:29","slug":"rumi-has-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Rumi Has It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n

Rumi follows me around. Do you know Rumi<\/a>? He was a 13th C Sufi mystic and a great poet of Love. The amazing thing about mystics is they do that. They follow us around.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember the first time I heard of Rumi but I remember at some point realizing that his words were being revealed to me in very particular circumstances most often when I needed to hear them the most.<\/p>\n

One time I was wrestling with whether I ought to leave the Yukon or stay here. A friend with whom I was speaking about this struggle decided a poem was in order. She pulled out her book of Rumi, picked one at random and began, “There is no need to go outside…”<\/p>\n

Hold on a sec.\u00a0Outside<\/em> is what Yukoners refer to as the rest of the world. I got my answer and I stayed.<\/p>\n

A man I know gave me a gift recently. It is a book of images and words created by his sister, now deceased. He didn’t give it to me to keep. He gave it to me to enjoy for a time and then return it back to him. It’s a powerful piece of this woman’s life, full of her passion and creativity.<\/p>\n

Last night I saw this man and told him I would be returning the book to him before I go away next month. We spoke about the work for a while and the different ways it had inspired us and I suddenly remembered I’d wanted to ask him if he knew the name of the author whose quote his sister had used on the book’s cover.<\/p>\n

He put his hand to his heart, indicating the power of the quote and what it means to him but he admitted he didn’t know the source. I said I would Google it when I got home, which is what I did. Yup. You guessed it. Rumi calling.<\/p>\n

Here it is:<\/p>\n

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,\u2028there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”<\/p>\n

And here is the rest of the poem:<\/p>\n

“When the soul lies down in that grass,\u2028the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense.”<\/p>\n

A Mystic sees the world differently than the average person. Ever aware of the Big Picture, the Mystic seeks Union with the Divine in order to become a liaison between the human world and the Realm of the Spirit. A Mystic transcends time. Rumi was here in the 1200s but his work is still being done now.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Rumi. I sure appreciate the help!<\/p>\n

Inspiring Message of the Day:<\/p>\n

I died from minerality and became vegetable;<\/p>\n

And From vegetativeness I died and became animal.<\/p>\n

I died from animality and became man.<\/p>\n

Then why fear disappearance through death?<\/p>\n

Next time I shall die<\/p>\n

Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels;<\/p>\n

After that, soaring higher than angels –<\/p>\n

What you cannot imagine,<\/p>\n

I shall be that.<\/p>\n

~ Jal\u0101l ad-D\u012bn Mu\u1e25ammad R\u016bm\u012b (30 September 1207\u00a0\u2013 17 December 1273)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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