Saturday, June 5, 2010

The Journey Within

"You must know that safety is concealed in danger.
The hidden grace consists in this, that the Lord shows the recipient of grace a terrible fire, but it is really a gracious light.
In our souls are answers to all our arguments, like stars in the sky.
The form is outside, and the spirit inside; the spirit, the real nature of the soul's Beloved, is in the soul, like blood is in the veins.
The one whose scout is the inward eye, this eye will behold with the very highest clairvoyance.
That soul is not content with traditional authority; no, his feeling of absolute certainty comes from the inward eye.
Lovers are devoted to the everlasting kingdom of Love."

Rumi (Vol.6 4359-4421)

Commentary: The certainty we seek can only be found in our own experience of the truth; and the ultimate truth is the Love that have birth to the sun, and the stars, and you...and Rumi tells us that this Love can be found within your own soul.