The Source - Rumi With A View
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The Source - Rumi With A View
“Who looks for me in form / who seeks me in a voice / indulges in wasted effort / such people see me not.”
Source is an elegant word, holding less imagery than God or Creator, but it may still suggest ‘a thing’ with a certain location.
‘Who am I?’ or ‘Where does this I come from?’ –
Rumi's worldview is grounded in the imperative never to lose faith in hope. He reminds us, however, that hope is never far from fear: “Show me a fear without hope, or a hope without fear. The two are inseparable.” And these simple words are more potent now than ever as we are assaulted each day by messages of death and doom in our media-saturated l
... See moreI am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
The contemplative mind prays from a different sense of Who–I–am. It rests, and abides in the Great I AM, and draws its life from the Larger Vine (John 15:4–5), the Deeper Well (John 4:10–14).