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Hello Rumi Tuesday! Loving and not loving…

Last updated on: August 2, 2016 at 3:26 am by Mastura Debra Graugnard

Hello Rumi Tuesday! Loving and not loving… 2016-08-01T23:24:05-05:00 Mastura Debra Graugnard

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Everything has to do with-6

EVERYTHING

has to do with

LOVING and not LOVING.

This night will pass.

Then we have

work to do.

~ Jalal ad-din Rumi
-Translated by Coleman Barks.

Love is the Essence of all of existence.

It is what we are made of.

We are an expression of divine love,

a manifestation of divine beauty,

a reflection of divine light.

In the Reality,

there is no question of loving or not loving.

There is only love.

Love is what we know in the

truth that exists within.

Love is the truth within.

In the material world of duality,

love is the inner compass.

Every experience,

every perception of an experience,

takes us closer to love

or farther from love.

It opens the heart

or closes the heart.

The heart yearns to return

to subsist in its knowing

of the unconditional love.

In the conditional world,

it either is or it isn’t.

Set your inner compass

to point to the Real,

where the only perception is Love –

the Essence of the One.

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