The Wisdom of Rumi and My Daily Fix

A site that has become my favorite over the years is The Daily Om. Each day some article or thought of inspiration is posted and many have been just the catalyst I needed to view something from a different perspective or take a more in depth look at something. A new addition to this site has been a variety of online courses you can sign up for at very nominal fees ranging in topic from meditation, animal guides and chakras to healing emtional wounds and introduction to sound healing. When I saw that the latest course offering was a Year with Rumi I knew I had found just what I needed for my daily fix. The poem below was today's offering. May it strike a resonance somewhere deep within your spirit and give new perspective as you interact through the day.....

Gazing at the Light

The Lamps are different
But the Light is the same.
So many garish lamps in the dying brain’s lamp-show,
Forget about them.
Concentrate on the essence, concentrate on the Light.
In lucid bliss, calmly smoking off its own holy fire,
The Light streams towards you from all things,
All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion.
The lamps are different,
but the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,
Endlessly emanating all things.
One turning and burning diamond,
One, one, one.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down,
To blind loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)