Love Song
Rainer Maria Rilke
How can I keep my soul in me, so that
it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise
it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote
lost objects, in some dark and silent place
that doesn’t resonate when your depths resound.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you,
takes [...]
If you contact God within yourself, you will know that He is in
everyone, that He has become the children of all races. Then
you cannot be an enemy to anyone. If the whole world could
love with that universal love, there would be no need for men
to arm themselves against one another. By our own Christlike
example we [...]
To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance,
and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the
guidance and benefit of others, by expressing in the world
of forms – truth, love, purity and beauty – this is the sole
game that has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other
incidents and attainments can, in themselves, [...]
To Love is to reach God.
Never will a Lover’s chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover’s robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover’s body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to reach God.
~Rumi
Translated by: Shahram Shiva
http://rumi.net
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,
for hope would be hope for the wrong thing;
Wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing;
There is yet faith;
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So [...]
There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street
and being the noise.
Drink all your passion
and be a disgrace.
Close both eyes
to see with the other eye.
Open your hands,
if you want to be held.
Sit down in this circle.
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd’s love filling you.
At night, [...]
The heart in love remains soft and sensitive. But when you’re hell-bent on
getting this or the other thing, you become ruthless, hard, and insensitive. How
can you love people when you need people? You can only use them. If I need you
to make me happy, I’ve got to use you, I’ve got to manipulate you, I’ve [...]
I have added a number of poems from Hydeh Aubon
on to the Allspirit website. You can read them here:
http://allspirit.co.uk/hydeh-aubon.html
My Spring
Yes, there is someplace
a deep place,
a lonely place.
Unreachable, unexplainable,
and mysterious in me that
longs for you.
When the air feels still
and a cool soothing breeze
suddenly brushes my face,
I know, in my heart, that
you [...]
Sharham Shiva is one of my favourite translators of
Rumi, not least because when I emailed and asked
if I could share some of his work on Allspirit (many
years ago now) he was very gracious and when I
thanked him, he told me, no, no, thank *you*
for sharing the poetry… This one made me smile…
I sipped some of [...]
I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and the sweetness of my moon.
Don’t talk about sorrow,
tell me of that treasure,
hidden if it is to you,
then just remain silent.
Last night
I lost my grip on reality
and welcomed insanity.
Love
saw me and said,
I showed up.
Wipe you tears
and be silent.
I said, O Love
I am frightened,
but it’s [...]
