Rumi: A Community Of The Spirit by Rev. Jessie Buchanan

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Slide Notes

Rumi: A Community Of The Spirit

I felt inspired to lean to use haiku by putting images to a beautiful Poe, by the Sufi mystic Rumi.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THERE'S A COMMUNITY OF THE SPIRIT.

Photo by F. C. Photography

Join it, and feel the delight
Of walking in the noisy street, and being the noise.

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Drink all your passion ,
and be a disgrace.

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Close both eyes
To see with the other eye.

Photo by This Is A Wake Up Call

Open your hands,
If you want to be held.

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Sit down in this circle.

Photo by arripay

Quit acting like a wolf and feel
The shepherd's love filling you.

Photo by Jethro Taylor

At night, your beloved wanders.
Don't accept consolations.

Photo by Ted Shieh

Close your mouth against food.
Taste the lover's mouth in yours.

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You moan,
"She left me." "He left me."

20 more will come

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Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

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Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?

Photo by Bob Jagendorf

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.

Photo by VinothChandar

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

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Rev. Jessie Buchanan

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