haiku Wednesday

 

 

tired and worn

me and my shadow

watching the night

– Picture and words by Larra

Journey of wisdom

Journey 1: Rumi

Journey 1:

Set out now, while you are strong, on the heart’s vast pain:

You’ll never discover joy on the plain of the body.

The heart’s the only house of safety, my friends:

It has fountains, and rose garden within rose gardens.

Turn to the heart and go forward, travelers of the night; there’s where you’ll find trees and streams of living water.

 

Journey 2: Rumi (Masnavi V:3678-83)

Journey 2: Sorrow  prepares you for joy. It violently swept everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

 

Journey 3: Rumi (Masnavi II: 1652-6)

Journey 3:

Beware!

Do not allow yourself to do

What you know is wrong, relying on the thought’

“Later I will repent and ask God’s forgiveness.”

True repentance flashes remorse and rains tears, For which lightning and clouds are needed, just as warmth and rain and needed to produce fruit.

Without the lightning of the heart and the rain clouds of the eyes,

How can the fire of devinie wrath be calmed?

How shall the greenery grow?

And fountains of clear water pour forth?

Journey 4: Rainier Maria Rilke

Journey 4:

Everything terrifying is in the deepest being, something helpless that wants our help.

Journey 5: Rumi

Journey 5:

Make me sweet again,

fragrant and fresh and wild,

and thankfull for any small gesture.

Note: Pictures by Larra