The universe is a vessel full to the brim with wisdom and beauty

 

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9" x 10", Mixed Media --- L I S A   D I E T R I C H

Know, O my son, that each thing in the universe is a vessel full to the brim with wisdom and beauty. It is a drop from the river of His Beauty...It is a hidden treasure because of its fullness. It has exploded and made the earth more brilliant than the skies. It has sprung up and make the earth like a sultan wearing a robe of satin.
- Rumi

Wild is the Wind

Tribe by Teal Marie Chimblo

Wild is the wind
it's whispering to me
and swishing trees against my skin
fullerbrush wiping me clean of something unseen.

I like the way you cover up everything for a second
when you come rushing through
I see your game—chasing me—and I am glad to fall down
and let you swirl above me.

Will you blow a sweet dream into my night mind?
I have a question,
I think you know it.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

Shiva's Om
Original Artwork by Teal Marie Chimblo

All the Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.

Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season

Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.

Make a new water-mark on your excitement

And love.

Like a blooming night flower,

Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness

And giving

Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence

Lie beside an equator

In your heart.

Greet Yourself

In your thousand other forms

As you mount the hidden tide and travel

Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven

Are sitting around a fire

Chatting

While stitching themselves together

Into the Great Circle inside of

You.

– Hafiz

From: 'The Subject Tonight is Love'

Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Don't just do something - sit there!
~Author Unknown


Today I am grateful for my small round cushion.

Its warm yellow center and purple pleated edges call to me,

Come and sit, awhile...or longer, and do nothing... just be.

I listen carefully to this gentle command
and take a comfortable seat,
sthira sukham asanam – steadiness and ease.

Maybe I will sit here for eternity.
Like Parvati will I win the love of the great Shiva?
I don't know, but this alone is enough

sweetness

peace

and

quiet
.

My Beloved, a Tale of Hide and Seek

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The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

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

– Rumi

Today I am grateful for my beloved.
For being so beloved.
For a game of hide-and-seek
in the woods with Michael.
I couldn't find him anywhere!