let the lover be

disgraceful, crazy, absentminded.

someone sober will worry 

about things going badly.

let the lover be.

~ Rumi

(images via visualize)

there’s courage involved if you want
to become truth.  there is a broken-

open place in a lover.  where are
those qualities of bravery and sharp

compassion in this group?  what’s the
use of old and frozen thought?  i want

a howling hurt.  this is not a treasury
where gold is stored; this is for copper.

we alchemists look for talent that
can heat up and change.  lukewarm

won’t do. halfhearted holding back,
well-enough getting by?  not here.

~rumi

it has been three years since i last drove halfway across the country, but 23 hours behind the wheel seemed far longer than i remembered.

if i had to sum it all up in one word, i’d choose liberating. there were moments i felt freer than i have in a long time, with the windows rolled down, wind blowing in my face, no phone service, miles upon miles of wide, open space (just one reason i moved back to texas) and not a soul in sight.

this aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives. this freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth. to be one with the truth for just a moment, is worth more than the world and life itself.

~ rumi

 my reflective excursion was spent drifting between a meditative silence and a private party in my car as i transformed into a rock star, belting out some of my favorite tunes, thanks to an old cd collection that i came across while packing and gina‘s mad cd-burning skills.

here are just a few of the songs that kept me company as i trekked along the highway of life.

1. get what you give – new radicals
2. let’s get it on – marvin gaye
3. make you feel my love – bob dylan
4. sleep while i drive – melissa etheridge
5. faith - george michael
6. more than a memory - garth brooks
7. little red corvette – prince
8. hurt so good – john cougar mellencamp
9. here i go again – whitesnake
10. fast car – tracy chapman

You suppose you are the trouble

but you are the cure.

You suppose that you are the lock on the door

but you are the key that opens it.

It’s too bad that you want to be someone else.

You don’t see your own face, your own beauty.

Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.

~rumi

there is some kiss we want with 
our whole lives, the touch of 
spirit on the body.

seawater begs the pearl to break its shell.
and the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling!

at night, i open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its
face against mine.

breathe into me.
close the language-door and
open the love window.

the moon won’t use the door,
only the window.

~rumi

out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field.

i’ll meet you there.

when the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

ideas, language, even the phrase each other 

doesn’t make any sense. 

~rumi

your way begins on the other side. become the sky.

take an axe to the prison wall. escape. 

walk out like someone suddenly born into color.

do it now. 

~rumi