"Wait for the illuminating openness, as though your chest were filling with Light, as when God said 'Did We not expand you?' (Qur'an, XCIV, 1). Don't look for it outside yourself. You are the source of milk. Don't milk others! There is a milk-fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket. You have a channel into the Ocean, and yet you ask for water from a little pool. Beg for that love-expansion. Meditate only on THAT . . . There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, and yet you go door to door asking for crusts. Knock on your inner door. No other. Sloshing kneedeep in fresh riverwater, yet you keep wanting a drink from other people's waterbags. Water is everywhere around you, but you only see barriers that keep you from water. The horse is beneath the rider's thighs, and still he asks, 'Where's my horse?' . . . Mad with thirst, he can't drink from the stream running so close by his face. He's like a pearl on the deep bottom, wondering, inside his shell, 'Where's the Ocean?' His mental questionings form the barrier . . . Self-consciousness plugs his ears. Stay bewildered in God, and only THAT"
Jelaluddin Rumi
Photo: Beehive Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, WY, September 3, 2012
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