Water yin

Water…rings of joy…how can the power of the universe hold us up…

My heart is so small…

Small things

My heart is so small
it’s almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?
“Look,” He answered ,
“your eyes are even smaller,
Yet they behold the world.” Rumi

Love is what gives joy to all creation…

Love

“Love is what gives joy to all creation.

Love is what gives joy to giving joy.

I was born of mother love in the beginning.

To that mother, joyous thanks and endless blessing”

#762, from Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988)

Your own heart is the temple.

Wood And Water “snow”

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama

Inner peace is the key:

Heart Butterfly

“Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility…without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed, or unhappy because of circumstances.”
Dalai Lama

Stay with friends who support you

hang together

Stay with friends who support you in these.

Talk with them about sacred texts,

and how you are doing,

and how they are doing,

and keep your practices together.

Love calls

everywhere and always.

We’re sky bound.

Are you coming?

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites,

so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Rumi

Somewhere there is a quite place…a place where the heart takes over and makes us Dance…

love trees dance

“The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.” – Rumi

Heart tree can speak

Let me see…7 1/2 lives..So how many do I have left? I started with 9,or was it 8. 7.5can be rounded up.I think I’m good.I wonder if I could give one of my lives to another? No one see’s me..Is this a dream…

zen cat mindfuness

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. Rumi