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What Can Ancient Spiritual Poetry Teach Us About Living?
Rising out the world, you and I,
a finite flame among the infinite darkness
of two nebulous chasms…
Born into a disenchanted world
of Cartesian rationalism, our minds
and spirits isolated from the universal,
a race of convulsionaries trudging
though the wastelands of a technocratic
nightmare, afraid of what we might become
if we rid ourselves of the empt... See more
a finite flame among the infinite darkness
of two nebulous chasms…
Born into a disenchanted world
of Cartesian rationalism, our minds
and spirits isolated from the universal,
a race of convulsionaries trudging
though the wastelands of a technocratic
nightmare, afraid of what we might become
if we rid ourselves of the empt... See more
“You wake the dead to life” by Rumi (Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori)
“You wake the dead to life,
you fountain of grace,
you fire in thickets of tangled thought.
“Today you arrived beaming with laughter—
that swinging key that unlocks prison doors.
“You are hope’s beating heart.
You are a doorway to the sun.
You are the one I seek and the one who seeks me.
... See more
“You wake the dead to life,
you fountain of grace,
you fire in thickets of tangled thought.
“Today you arrived beaming with laughter—
that swinging key that unlocks prison doors.
“You are hope’s beating heart.
You are a doorway to the sun.
You are the one I seek and the one who seeks me.
... See more
Rumi — You wake the dead to life
We live not by the breath that flows in And flows out, but by him who causes the breath To flow in and flow out.
Eknath Easwaran • The Upanishads (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality Book 2)
Spirituality is a practice that brings relief, communication, and transformation.