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

Here is the opportunity

Here is the opportunity.  It is offered to every soul; it is on the table with the feast.  But so many simply gorge themselves, they see not subtleties; they feel not the radiance of light from every candle of truth upon that table that the Master has placed for each of us.  Sit with me for a moment, beloveds.  Do not look to sustenance, do not look to ego satisfaction, do not look to feeding fear.  Look to who you are. 

 

Of course, that is all up to you, but when God knocks at the door, who will not open?  Where will you hide?  Where will you go?  To another life?  It follows, you know.  You never forget.  You shall not keep repeating this process-- hear me, beloveds.  That is why now you must make your stand. 

You must weigh your truth against your illusion.  You must weigh your knowing against your needs.  You must become.  When the going is so difficult and tough, when you cannot think another thought nor walk another step, when you cannot pray another word, call me.  I have been there.  We all have. 

This is not easy.  This thing called being human has been made extremely difficult.  I know you all can do it.  I know that your life, your light, your strength goes beyond whatever you imagine yourself to be.  These are the moments where greatness is defined by what you think and how you back it up by achieving an ultimate love, which is putting the heart of your heart behind your truth and going forward and caring not what the world thinks or feels or judges about you.  It will not be easy, but the power of your soul, once you touch that starlight, overcomes everything. 

Babaji

What if everything in your life is put there because you will it so?

What if everything in your life is put there because you will it so?  Not a thing is out of place, there is no one and no thing to blame for any of your pictures.

The big picture.  Because you have journeyed within, the big picture more and more presents itself.  Are you going to be overwhelmed by such a blessing?  Underwhelmed perhaps?  Blasé?  Frightened?  

Life gets bigger as we go deeper.  Do not fear your depths. Journeying from the echoes in the fog to the clean and poignant sunlight hurts the eyes, but they grow accustomed, acclimated to the clarity that it now beholds.  
Rumi

Do you think your suffering is not registered some place?

Do you think your suffering is not registered some place?  It is not true.  There is not another like you in the mind of God in all and every level of consciousness, and I tell you true, you are so loved!  You are not separate, you are not far away, you are not incomplete.  You are the beloved of the loved.  Every single breath, every thought, every word, every feeling is felt in the heart of God. 

Why are we here?  Why do we speak?  Because all of this communication leads to bolstering what is true about you.  You can overcome anything.  There will always be tides that are against you.  It is the strong swimmer that knows when to paddle and when to float.  Your dreams, your passions, your excitement, they all mean something.  Not just to you, but can you believe they mean something to God too?  They do. 
Divine Mother

We are sailors, captains all, and we drift pointing our vessels towards the sun

We are sailors, captains all, and we drift pointing our vessels towards the sun, negotiating the moods that are waves, and the depths of the waters that appear dark and uncertain.  It is the rising sun we follow, it is this rising sun that you feel in your breast, you feel it in your gut; it is radiating throughout your life.

 

It is a texture.  We are the finger, the hand, the needle, the wool, the plan, the choice, the effort and energy.  We are weavers, and when there comes a break, a tear in life, we must return and set it right.  It gets done only if we do it.

 

Your patience has given the lord of time the opportunity to bring the fragments of your dreams together that they might be woven into the tapestry that is reality.  Do not tear such committed works through worry and fear.  You have worked much too hard to suffer the tantrums of an ego that knows much better its place in your existence.

Rumi

On the mountain, where lies your home?

On the mountain, where lies your home?  The summit?  The base?  Somewhere in between, perhaps?  I tell you, with God as my heart, do not cease from climbing.  Continue.

You will find strengths you forgot were yours.  If you suffer along the way, you will learn from such pain.  For a moment, if you could see through my eyes, you would be at it night and day, because the reward is a love and a joy you can only dream about at this time and place in your lives.

I’m waiting for you in that place with arms open wide.
Jesus

There are lists any soul possesses believing them to be true

There are lists any soul possesses believing them to be true:  I need more money, I need the perfect job, I need more time.  I need this and I need that.  Were that soul to take those moments spent needing and thinking, take each of those moments and journey to God within, there would no turmoil remain.  Perhaps this is a way you might try.  Do not take the time in your life to affirm exactly what you do not want.  Rather, venture within and speak with God. 

Listen to your thoughts.  Do not let them run rampant like some great waves crashing against your pristine shore.  Do not play the fool to the foil of your mind.  Do not injure your opportunity to ascend by falling into the habit of life.  This is not life.  This is simply an opportunity to adventure.  Real life is love.  Let no appearance less than love convince you otherwise. 

Divine Mother

If it is prosperity and abundance you wish

If it is prosperity and abundance you wish, then do something creative and begin with your talent.  Look at all of your talent.  Look at who you are when you are doing what you love.  Maybe you become someone else when you are not doing what you love.  That is the way most of the world lives; do not live that way. 

Be brave, but more than that, be outrageous, be creative.  Do not concern yourself about others' judgments and criticisms.  The buffoonery of humanity is legendary in the universe.  This is a world where you have as much right to create what you love as everyone does creating what they do not.

Prosperity and abundance flow from the light of God.  The light of God shows through your passions, your creativity, your talents, your abilities.  It sheds light on what will manifest, it is on your world the joy of accomplishment, recompense for a job well done.  If at first the flow of light does not seem enough, do not give up.  Expand. It is worth putting your heart into everything you do, especially the things you love.  This will begin the inertia of prosperity and abundance, of wealth.
Jesus

I bless you with the water of your own love

I bless you with the water of your own love, as I touch your forehead and rest my palm on your shoulder.  I give you these words to speak:

I know not fear.  I am simply the wayfarer and I bring love, strong and simple.  I cannot be defeated.  I am no fool of Earth.  I anoint my being daily in the light essence of who I am.  I drink deeply and I pass the cup for all who thirst.  I have taken the first step towards the rest of my loving life.

Be so blessed,
Quan Yin

We can walk many roads

We can walk many roads attempting to create and procure what we think we want.  But, and this is no cliché, God has an infinite plan for you, for everyone and everything.  I believe it is the joy that God receives from our embracing such a plan that bestows many blessings. 

It is perhaps difficult to reconcile that blessings are not always easy nor, shall I say, positive.  They may not appear so as one is receiving them.  But the Infinite Wisdom gives us, acting through us, what we need to attain, our ultimate freedom and at-one-ness with God.
Rumi

There are those that go into the world

There are those that go into the world and wave banners of accomplishment great and small.  And there are those that journey inward, to the great quiet and humble, and bring to the world something so fine, so infinitely lovely and simple that few, very few ever recognize it.

You see, beloveds, we create with the energy of God, and if the focal point is love, then that must surround us, it must.  I tell you nothing you do not know already.  Just remember to love, take no sides and live in love.  There is no other way.  We all come to such a place, to such a simple realization and it all begins in the heart.

Be good to yourselves,

Shams

It is not easy maintaining our boundaries

It is not easy maintaining our boundaries and staying clear of another’s destiny.  We want the best, we wish to be compassionate, give love, listen and be understanding.  Truth be told, listening is usually the best healing balm for any supposed malady that afflicts a soul.

Few of us live as the clear river.  It is when the ego personality infects a situation that attachments begin and prosper.  We become the stone or the fallen tree that becomes the dam.  And we spend so much of our time bemoaning such a thing that stands in our natural way.

It is wise, we suggest, to hover gently above the drama, as that is where you become the clear river.  That is the land of noticing, not the desert of judgments.
Rumi

Elegance, so infrequent in your world

Elegance, so infrequent in your world.  When love becomes the heart that grows into who you are, you enter the world of elegance.  Subtle, fine, gossamer.  One immense and gentle meditation of God.  So elegant. 

So much joy awaits you.  Begin it now, that you might be better prepared for then.

Divine Mother

Feel the softness, the warmth of our hearts

Feel the softness, the warmth of our hearts, the very deep welcome, and rest in that.  Stay here.  And if you must go, bring this back with you:

You are never devoid of such comfort and companionship.  It is cold in your world, not because of a season, but because of an illness, a disease that is rampant on your world called fear.  We knowingly direct you towards self-acceptance and truly understanding and feeling the love that you are.

This is a love so vast, so great, so deep and belighted that only the human mind could avoid it.  That is why we touch your hearts, and when we do, we suggest: here lives the truth, this is the fire by which you live and warm yourselves.  This is where we have found our home and this is where we know your journey is bringing you.

Rumi

I made a conscious choice

I made a conscious choice, a great decision.  It was to live my truth, not partially, but totally and completely.  Is not there some aspect of your life significant and loving enough that you can live it all of the time, in every breath?
Everything else in your life and times takes its place where it belongs when you precede life with your passions.  Climb out of the darkness, take my hand and show me what best you do.

Jesus

When does a soul tire

When does a soul tire of walking a path where the drudgery of fear and worry keeps sticking to the hem of its robe?  How is one to face God so disheveled, so dirty?  And yet, most of you insist on doing it every day!  Forgive me as I do not judge your spiritual hygiene, but there is a simpler and cleaner way, and that is called laughter.

Do not take life so seriously.  No one can take your power unless you hand it over.  If you wish to play a victim, you will never stand upon my stage.  Victims are souls that snore.  They are so deep in their own sad illusion that they sleep.

My beloveds, you are all alive and vibrant.  You are more than magnificent expressions of a love unimaginable, unconditional and eternal.  You cannot be stopped.  You cannot be defeated.  You cannot lose if you know the truth, that you came here for fun.

One day you will know my words speak true, but you need not sleep the long sleep to find that out.
Shams

I would like to show you a book

I would like to show you a book, if you would allow yourself a moment or two to witness it.  It is complete; it is perfect in every way.  It is a rather simple depiction of love, the culmination of focused commitment, work and self-expression.  Why do I speak of such a thing?  Every life is a book.  Every chapter is a culmination of experience and a bringing forward of change.  There is no role model or yardstick by which to measure the evolving soul.  We grow because we cannot do anything but.

It is time to awaken that God part that lives within you.  And upon awakening many things will change; the world will shift and your perception of life will follow and nothing will ever be the same because you will not see it as such.

So, beloveds, again I say, the past deserves to be where it is.  It is the great lament, the great deterrent to a joyous today.  Do not be fooled into thinking you can change that which is no more.  You can change how you feel about it now, and that is sufficient.  That is all you need do.
Rumi

If we have a plan, it sings of simplicity

If we have a plan, it sings of simplicity.  Love yourself and eventually you will learn to love others.  It is the way.  Because the true self is the highest, purest, clearest form of love, does it not make sense to start there?

Forgive your mistakes.  These things are simple.  You need not complicate life.  Stay in your heart and God will stay in your life.

I leave you with these words,
Mataji

My little one, come to the fire and free yourself

My little one, come to the fire and free yourself from the burden that weighs you and holds you in times that matter not.  A moment, perhaps two, is all it takes and you are born again.  And what you do with such a gift is entirely up to you and no one else.

Lahiri Mahasaya

There is nothing you cannot do

There is nothing you cannot do.  Prove not to the world, but to yourself.  Do not disguise love with work.  That you accept the hint of joy is to your highest good.
Babaji

When work becomes play, then you know you are alive

When work becomes play, then you know you are alive.  Oh, they could not stand me; I had too much fun!  And yet, it is available to one and all.  It is a very simple equation:

Life – Fear = Fun

If we give up the fear mind that clutches until its nails bleed from grabbing, if we determinately extricate those hands and speak gently and softly with strength and the power of love, the crop of fear lies dead in the field.

These are the times to become the compassionate farmer, if you will.  You must not allow your small mind to bully you, but you must not bully your small mind because it does not comprehend.  It is limited in the glory of your truth; you are not.

So give thanks to God for the opportunity to do that which you love, that which you do.  Gratitude, simple, eternal; stay there.
Shams of Tabriz

Right now can be the epiphany or the soul realization you long for

Right now can be the epiphany or the soul realization you long for.  Gather up your materialism, your needs and wants and desires, do what you must, but know that real life, living a true life is living a life in God.  And yes, how can one believe what one does not see?  Because one must know.  How can one know?  Because one is born of that truth.  What is truth?  It is, when everything else is taken away, what remains.  It is light; it is the trillion stars in the heavens.  It is the mind that created those stars and the heavens and you, and me.

Know this: we are not separate.  We have never been and never will be.  The amnesia is passing swiftly.  If you do not yet glimpse, you shall.   What is real, what is true, is not what the world would have you think.  What is love is, after you have suffered all the pain from resistance, what you choose because there is nothing left to choose.  But that in itself is a choice; is it not?

I applaud each and every one of you; you must not ever surrender.  You are above untruth.  You move with the thought of God, and God calls you home, to the home within you.  That is being successful.  That is finding bliss.  That is becoming Buddha.  That is the Christ resurrection.  It is simply deciding that within eventually becomes without. 

As you love yourselves through, as you care enough to care.  You will begin to understand that THE WAY is and always has been the only way, and that is to love.  Your world is starved for it, your fragileness screams for it.  Your soul attempts to provide it but you are caught in the cycle of self-flagellation and judgment and criticism. 

But think, it does not work; no matter what the world or society puts upon you, it does not work unless it promotes love.  Will you not join me in calling it a lie?  Be the bravest of the brave and forge your life through the darkness because, truthfully, this entire journey is but an illusion.  And when you, to your true home return, this journey will be the dream rather than the reality. 

With deep love,

Divine Mother

We, most of us, want recognition

We, most of us, want recognition.  We want other souls to witness our light, to know of our kindness, to pay homage to our creations, and sadly perhaps, is the world built upon such a foundation.  But if it is accolades you seek, then none will speak of you higher nor more loving than God, and all we must do is listen. 

If you can do what you do, you can hear God.  It is for almost everyone the most difficult task in the world, to hand it all to the beloved most high.  But if you seek truth, then you must go to the place where God will meet you, which is your welcome and your insistence.

I did not cease composing poetry because none would read it, and fewer still would understand it.  I did what I did because I loved doing it.  Every time it brought me back to Shams.  It is no different with any art form.  It will always bring you back, always and in all ways to God.

If you could see how great a fan, how great and noble a listener, how attentive, how riveted is God, you would not care who in the world would read or not read, would praise or not praise, would admire or not admire, it doesn’t matter.

So do not be fooled by the shortness of vision and sight.  You may have to squint a little bit, but that is God in there.  And if you listen really closely, you might hear her say something like: “Well, look what we did this time!”
Rumi

The greatest suffering comes from the small mind

The greatest suffering comes from the small mind.  The greatest peace comes from the nothing that simplicity affords.  Every idea is capable.  All condescension is incapable. 

Release must initiate from the heart; surrender, always from the mind.  Let go.  It is not a rope that your fingers tear at; it is simply a dream that has run its course.  It is time that you stand and leave the theater and walk away into the sun, into the life-beloved.  And bring all of your dreams that, like some great story house, will become your world, your home, your house. 

It takes no strength to stand against the many, when one is God self-realized.  It takes the strength of a God to face the world when one is unsure.  Look at your lives—all of them—and forget them.  They were very nice at one time.  But even time is an illusion.  And the only illusion worthwhile is the truth.  And the truth is love.  And what does that make you?   

Buddha

If your attention is diverted toward lack, limitation and need, follow me

If your attention is diverted toward lack, limitation and need, follow me.  I will show you the golden sun, I will whisper in your ears until you remember that you are the way and what you love is nirvana; your passion is the key.

Do you hear me, beloveds?  Let none judge you, accept no judgment.  You must not live in the muck of the river any longer.  You must swim to the light.  Do not think that what the world of society takes as real is real.

What you love, what brings you joy, the fire of your passion is real, because it is God.  And God is the only reality.  You can quote me if you like.
Divine Mother

You can bring the light of God into your earthly moments

You can bring the light of God into your earthly moments.  You can open your eyes and see.  In a real sense are you trapped by the physical body.  But it is the Godly-adept that strives and eventually overcomes such a challenge.

 

There will be much rebellion from the lower self.  There will be the pungent and thick and sloth-moving mistakes and judgments and shame and lessons of the past that are dumped into your present moment.  This is the way it is done.  However, one need not wallow in such a sticky mess if one is forthright, committed, focused and courageous in their pursuit of bringing forward their true body of light.

 

For every step forward soul takes, the ego mind would march you back a dozen score.  It is the way of fear, but this is changing.  Remember that the heart rising into the sea of God attempts to pull the body-mind with it, and the body-mind is incapable of instantaneously achieving those spiritually lofty heights.  So we experience fatigue but we never give up.  So you see, every victory, if you will, has its cost.  You will be used to this in time, and believe it or not, it will not affect you the same way. 

 

Raising the octave of the physical does not occur overnight, so do not be hard on yourselves.  So remember the mountain top, remember what it feels like to stand atop that sea and remember that you live, breathe, move and have your being in something much lighter and freedom-filled and limit-less than the body. 

Rumi

It brings God immeasurable joy that to create in the world

It brings God immeasurable joy that to create in the world, but you must consciously go first.  Master, be with me, do this with me, stand by my side.  Master, stand within me; that is the way, the loving way, that is the Christian way, that is the Buddhist way, that is the Muslim way.  They are all the same; they are just some great tapestry that is over-embroidered.

We must be true to our truth.  I showed God my love with every word I wrote.  Love God with what you do best and then discover that best is unlimited; many new directions, many new perceptions, many different avenues, many ways to see and feel. 

I did not see life so much as a poem as I saw it the opportunity to become a living, breathing God.  I know that it is your silhouettes walking along the same path.
With love, Rumi.