It is the want of humanity to explore outer space

It is the want of humanity to explore outer space, but there is the infiniteness of marvelous worlds right within each of us.  Man and woman are constantly searching externally, perhaps because it does not hurt so much when compared to the inner journeys that bring us to landscapes of shame and guilt.  If we were to lay the life down this very moment, step back from it and take a good neutral and unbiased look, what pollution we would behold!

From the time we are born, we become infected with the world.  Ideas, thoughts, belief systems that are not our own and yet we believe they are, and so we live a life that way.  We might see, looking at the cadaver of our past, great ranges, mountains and hills of regret and almosts, and great valleys, gorges and chasms of if-onlys.

Perhaps it is not such a bad idea to take a good, honest look.  We do not wear garments that are torn and thread-bare unless we must.  Why do we every day awaken to wearing the same old tired life?  Dare I say that it is an act of convenience, of settling and most-likely surrendering to the world.

You need not go into space, cold and barren, when you might stand next to the warmth of your inner flame.  Be creative.  Journey within.  Love what you do on Earth, love it deeply because it is the food upon the golden tray that you serve to God, and God will taste.  You need not be the way you were if it no longer serves you.  Practice love, loving yourself first, forgiving yourself, and let go of the sheath that weighs you down and keeps you wondering in the mists of Earth.

I leave you with love,

Rumi

A very long time ago, like so many, I mistook life as a chore rather than an opportunity

A very long time ago, like so many, I mistook life as a chore rather than an opportunity.  It took Shams to change my perception of this great gift.

In such a place as Earth, that is the status quo, it is the pain and toil and suffering, the unhappiness and the broken dreams upon which most focus, blame and complain.  This begets a life onto itself; as you know, the law of manifestation follows thought.

As you come upon the light of a new day, the opportunity for a new life, the joy of accomplishment, as you come upon all of these and more, why must you dredge and dig up the past?  Why must you judge your vibrant present moment by what has died and by the lessons you learned or did not?

The old way, the way of fear, pain and suffering can lie at rest if you so choose.  Just let it happen.  Let yourselves glide into the love that awaits you in many manners, shapes and forms.  This is not difficult to do.  Let yourselves have. 

Rumi

I cannot conceive of failure

I cannot conceive of failure.  Can you?

Babaji

I will not speak of what stands before you

I will not speak of what stands before you; that is for you to live.  I will not raise you up; that is for you to accomplish.  I will not pity you, judge you, nor rain sorrow down upon you; that is for you to outgrow.

Have you found your true course?  It is no road.  There are no markings.  It is the lightest of air, and it is something that you must discern and discover for yourselves.

But allow me this, you are beginning to float.

Your Christ.

Were I to say to you, I place myself in your hands, I know not what to do

Were I to say to you, I place myself in your hands, I know not what to do.  I hurt, I am lonely, destitute, despondent.  I've lost my way.  Were I to place myself in your hands, how would you receive me?  Then receive yourselves the same way.  Let no appearance less than love convince you otherwise. 

Buddha

We live in a desert

We live in a desert.  It is what we do with our heart that transforms that desert into a garden.  It is what we do with our words, with our actions that brings life to that garden.  Your life is your garden.  The way you think will kill it or prosper it. 

Hear me, there is nothing greater in any world than you, whether you have forgotten this truth, misplaced it or stuck it in the back of your trousers.  Nothing.  Your love and capacity to love and forgive is greater than every celestial body in the history of universes.  Big words.  But you are big souls. 

I brought these truths to Rumi.  He thought me crazy at first.  I think I loved him even more because of it.  But he began to see that God is not flat living in a book.  God is vibrant, God is alive and so are you. 

Life will try to get you down from time to time.  That is why you must become your God because then you are life, life itself.  Live, my friends, live like you've never lived before.  Go through every door unopened, bring your light.  Spread your truth, your life, feed the hungry, feast yourself.  Love, prosper.  Be the one, the only one who can.  I bring you the message of perseverance.  You can do it, you can do it all.  You are so loved. 

Shams of Tabriz