Fw:THAT LIVES IN US -- Rumi

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THAT LIVES IN US

If you put your hands on this oar with me,they will never harm

another, and they will come to findthey hold everything you want.

If you put your hands on this oar with me, they would no longerlift

anything to yourmouth that might wound your precious land –that

sacred earth that is your body.

If you put your soul against this oar with me,the power that made the

universe will enter your sinewfrom a source not outside your limbs,

but from a holy realmthat lives in us.

Exuberant is existence, time a husk.When the moment cracks open,

ecstasy leaps out and devours space;love goes mad with the blessings,

like my words give.

Why lay yourself on the torturer’s rack of the past and the future?The

mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacitieswill find no

rest.

Be kind to yourself, dear – to our innocent follies.Forget any sounds

or touch you knew that did not help you dance.You will come to see

that all evolves us.

~ Rumi

(Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West by Daniel Ladinsky)

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