The moment you accept what troubles you've been given,
the door will open.
-- Rumi
Today's guidance from The Rumi Card Book:
Category: Ordeal ... You fear the rocks? Better men than you have died on them. Dying on love's rock is better than a life of death. Stop being afraid and full of self-pity. Your duty is to act on your deepest beliefs.
Category explanation from the book: One of the glories of Rumi's work is its naked honesty about the necessity of ordeal--about what could be called "the alchemy of Agony." The family of ordeal cards, then, deals with both sides of the nature of suffering in our lives: that it is unavoidable and that, through understanding its inner purpose, it can be transmuted into the gold of Grace.Imagine the Time
From: http://rumidays.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html
Imagine the time the particle you are
returns where it came from.
The family darling comes home. Wine,
without being contained in cups,
is handed around.
A red glint appears in a granite outcrop,
and suddenly the whole cliff turns to ruby.
At dawn I walked along with a monk
on his way to the monastery.
We do the same work, I told him.
We suffer the same.
He gave me a bowl, and I saw.
The soul has this shape.
Shams, and actual sunlight, help me now,
being in the middle of being
partly in myself, and partly outside.
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