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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. ~RumiYou are a spiritual being, blessed with a human experience! In fact, you are a blessing to this world because you are a wonderful, unique, divine emanation of the Spirit. Only you can bring your unique fabric to the tapestry of Life and so today is a great day to have a great day!Your divinity finds a blank canvas in this now moment, a fresh wind in the sails of life, urging you to seize it! Each moment is a renewal, a ch ......

Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly become one with the sun of love, and love will shine through you its all-healing joy! ~RumiGratitude is the natural response when we recognize the abundance of life. It is an inner alignment with the divine flow of the universe. When we are truly grateful, we open ourselves to the infinite potential that is always present in our lives. It is through this attitude of gratitude that we open the gates to greater fulfillment, love and joy.Gratitude is more t ......

Once again a new beginning!Take all the veils of the past and make a new garment!~RumiThere is no moment so full of promise as the moment of a new beginning. It is the eternal opportunity when the past dissolves into the ethers and the future unfolds with infinite possibility. This is not merely a change in circumstance, but a shift in the very fabric of one’s beingness. We may look back upon the seasons of the year with both love and heartbreak, but the true essence of renewal lies not in the ......

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ~RumiThere is a quiet, unseen power that shapes the lives of each of us - the power of choice. But before we come to understand its true significance, we often find ourselves swept up in the currents of chance, as if life were a river whose course we did not determine. Initially we believe to be born into circumstances not of our choosing, raised among people whose dreams and fears shape us b ......

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold. ~Rumi Transformation is not a grand spectacle, nor is it a sudden arrival. It is the slow and steady work of becoming, the quiet unfolding of a truth already within us. It whispers, rather than shouts, and its work is done in the stillness between moments, in the spaces we often overlook. Yet, in this quietness lies its profound power. It moves beneath the surface, shaping the heart, guid ......

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? ~RumiFreedom is the pulse of the human spirit, the very air in which the soul breathes and finds its true form. Freedom is not merely the absence of chains, or the breaking of external laws. It is the discovery of the spiritual laws that govern our being, the knowing that we have the freedom to create the world we desire to live in. Freedom holds the power to follow the instincts of the h ......

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop! ~RumiLife is good, not merely in its external circumstance but in its eternal flow! This simple, yet profound truth calls us to live with full-heartedness in every breath. The beauty of life is not always in its grandeur, but in its subtle moments — an afternoon sun shimmering through the leaves, a quiet walk on a familiar path, or the gentle hum of the world spinning around us. These are the true pleasures, the ones tha ......

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion? ~ RumiGod loves you and God loves you just the way you are! Knowing that God loved itself so much that It created you out of Itself puts you in the heart center of the Divine! There is no place you must go to, no task you must accomplish and no specific song you must sing! You are home in God and God is right where you are!This means that on our journey in this world we need to learn who we are in God! This is diffe ......

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. […] Welcome and entertain them all. ~RumiYou are much more than the world! We live our traditions, teachings, prayers and meditations to remind us that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. However, we oftentimes get caught up in our experiences to the point that we identity with them. While we desire to embrace and be one wit ......

If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light!~RumiYou are light! The light that you are cannot be kindled, it is not dependent on another human being, it is not up to the mercy of any situation or circumstance. The light that you are is eternal!This inner luminosity bursts through right where you are, and that which we think we are must be surrendered to this mystical and sacred fire. Everything that we call bad as well as good must be given to this light, to free our humann ......

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.~ RumiYou are the gift! A gift given by the most-high God for you to be present in the here and now! This is something to be eternally grateful for!Yet, gratitude is so much more than a polite ‘thank you’! Gratitude is a light-filled thread that connects us in a deep relationship with the world and the Divine. Gratitude nourishes our physical bei ......

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.~RumiWe often think of gratitude as giving thanks for something in the here and now. If something appears that has happened which we consider to be good, then we are grateful. However, if we experience a situation or circumstance, which we simply consider to be favorable, we most of the time do not see a reason to give thanks.Making giving thanks a response to something makes it the end point, a reaction, rather than a beginning point, a fresh ......

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. ~RumiYour sisters and brothers in Hawaii, especially the ones that went through the Lahina fires on Maui, are holding all the Los Angelinos in prayer! Please know that you are loved! You are supported! You are the renewal, the rebirth, and the vibratory field of peace within!All the feelings and emotions of sadness, anger, worry, doubt and uncertain ......

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.~RumiAs we are moving on the path of newness into the new year, we are still inundated with all the overwhelming issues our world is facing. While we are in this world, we study, pray, meditate, and learn to grow past all the world’s fleeting pleasures which only create dissatisfaction. No amount of these earthy thrills will ever be “enough.” By understanding that only the Spirit is our source and supply we energize and groun ......

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings.~RumiTransform your life, transform the world! You are here on divine appointment! Because we said yes, even before time and space began, to be present in the right here and now, nothing happens by coincidence! This is why your presence is precious! You are a divine emanation of love, joy, beauty and peace. You are here in this unique p ......

Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart. ~RumiGod is here now! God is in you! God expresses as you! God expresses through you!The most amazing thing about God’s grace is that we believe it to be something different than what it is! Many times, we think we must beg, beseech or appease for God’s grace to embrace us, where in fact God’s grace is always readily available to us at no cost and with no obligations!If there is the perception that ......

It is your light that lights the world.~RumiIn our everyday lives we are getting absorbed by daily vortexes of tasks and goals. While we get bogged down in the details of the material world our minds get cluttered with the debris of fear, doubt, worry and not-enoughness.When we are caught in these everyday events, we are unable to distinguish between allowing God doing the work through us and us doing the work by our own force. Through our teachings we know that the burden is not on us to make a ......

I Am the Light of the World~Jesus the Christ (Lamsa Bible, John 8:12)There is so much more about us in the here and now than we can imagine! The Real world of the Spirit far exceeds what the logical mind can grasp! Only our feeling tones and our intuition bring us in vibratory harmony with Spirit and Its messages for us.Change is the only constant in the human experience, and it is easier for us to be mindful of the places we leave behind than to celebrate and rejoice over the spaces that become ......

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.~ RumiWe are unique, creative beings sharing our paths in this human experience. No matter the situations or circumstances our minds are creative all the time! So, what good would it do if our expression in this here and now is not from our true authentic self?On the one hand we might feel our intense desire to express ourselves and to put something into motion, yet on the other hand our drive might be coupled with the equally overwhelming human need ......

Never lose hope, my dear heart, miracles dwell in the invisible.~RumiWhen we cannot fathom the unfoldment that is happening in front of our eyes, we call this a miracle. However, this categorization of a miracle comes out of our human nature. In God there are no miracles, because in God everything is possible! In this vibratory field, our deepest intent meets God’s inexhaustible supply.Too often we limit ourselves to the physical world and solely focus on logical analysis. In this narrow spect ......

Your longing for ME is my message to you,All your attempts to reach ME,Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.~RumiIn moments when we get caught up in our day-to-day human experience, when we feel anxiety and even trepidation, we find ourselves standing at the seemingly contradictory intersection of human and spiritual facts. At this intersection we must choose what we consider to be real. Oftentimes we remain in a sense of frustration and longing because that, which we consider to be real, are ......

This moment is all there is.~RumiWhen we desire to be living every moment to its fullest, we often equate this with being busy, being inundated with different stimuli or being in constant movement.However, when we dive into the notion and meaning of a moment, we discover that it offers a much broader stage on which infinite possibilities can present themselves, rather than it being considered an insignificant short period of time where not much can be accomplished. A moment, in fact, this moment ......

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.~ Rumi, The Essential RumiWe need to get to know ourselves for us to heal! Without our own healing we cannot have a true relationship with the Divine. All the different places within ourselves that are still filled with doubt, worry, not enough-ness, anxiety, uncertainty, guilt, or shame are energies holding us back from living our true potential of a creative and soul fulfilling life. When we are healed, we know who and whose we are, we follow divine g ......

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~RumiWhen our focus moves from external circumstances to an inner awareness, God becomes the home-beacon, the focal point and point of reference of our lives. Any thought, action, situation, or circumstance around what others did, do or will do stops to have any influence over us. In this place there is only a quiet acceptance of the world as it is, without us trying to influence the timing of anyone’s soul jou ......