I Love The Poetry Of Rumi

Don't be absorbed with the waterwheel's motion.
Turn your head and gaze at the river.
You say, "But I'm looking there already."
There are several signs in eyes that see all the way to the ocean.
Bewilderment is one.
Those who study foam and flotsam near the edge have purposes, and they'll explain them at length!
Those who look out to sea become the sea, and they can't speak about that.

On the beach there's desire-singing and rage-ranting,
the elaborate language-dance of personality,
but in the waves and underneath there's no volition, no hypocrisy,
just love forming and unfolding.

~ Rumi.

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kasiyat

Yeah, those who look out to sea become the sea.
And those who look at the sky becomes the sky.
We might not realize but the dissolving of self is so blissful. I wish i could live just like that. Why this hypocritical system and Society?

ethereal · F

True! Dissolving one's self is so blissful. I wonder about the hypocritical system and society too, but I don't know.. We haven't made it, it had been like that even in those times of kings and all. So maybe we shouldn't bother about the system coz perhaps it will never change? It has improved from the olden times, but it always had shades of black, white and grey, isn't it? So why not just forget all that and dissolve ourselves in what we love! ^^

kasiyat

Hmm... probably the only way is around it.