ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT INGPENHAHA • Cheese !
Alright so now I am a #Rumi Wannabe; striving for #Divine #Love
The human #heart has the capacity to directly perceive the #spiritual #nature of reality, to witness the qualities and signs of #God in the theater of #manifest life, and yet too often we chase after shadows that have no real substance. We have an itch and a restlessness we do not know how to satisfy. Underneath all our forms of restlessness and desiring is a yearning that is precious, but when we scatter ourselves we betray and abandon that yearning.
This is how #life communicates to us: when we don’t get it – that this (…) is not our purpose then it has to come in harsh/ abrupt forms to WAKE US UP. In #Arabic the word ‘Dunya’ (world) is from a root word which has several meanings, one is ‘Danya’ – it means that as we attempt to grasp it, it slips away. That is, every time a need/ desire is fulfilled another emerges. And the more we think we got it the more we realize we didn’t. In spiritual context, suffering is a blessing and is the prerequisite for #growth.
Don’t let your pain be a #motivation for filling your hearts void with more play and distractions, rather let it be a motivation to cleanse your ‘self’ from all the unsettling feelings: Your #ego, wants, rights … Desire is only an attempt to fill an emptiness, and living a life seeking pleasure is pure boredom. I heard once from a wise man, that despair is the root of a #hedonistic lifestyle. I believe our current world with its multiple methods of #entertainment can attest to that.
