There Is A Candle In Your Heart

There is a candle in your heart,

      ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul,
      ready to be filled.

You feel it, don’t you?
You feel the separation
      from the Beloved.

Invite Him to fill you up,
      embrace the fire.

Remind those who tell you otherwise that 
      Love
      comes to you of its own accord, 
      and the yearning for it 
      cannot be learned in any school.



Rumi

reaching and touching

reaching and touching
Give your weaknessto one who helps.
Crying out loud and weeping are great resources.A nursing mother, all she doesis wait to hear her child.Just a little beginning-whimper,and she’s there. God created the child, that is, your wanting,so that it might cry out, so that milk might come.
Cry out!  Don’t be stolid and silentwith your pain.  Lament! And let the milkof loving flow into you.
-Rumi  1207-1273
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