One day I was looking at some magazines that I found at a used bookstore in the 70's. They were a of series (kind of crude) of a monthly magazine about spiritual "new age" writings. Back at that time I had never heard of Rumi. I found the poem I will quote below.
This is the most important poem I ever read.
It is a poem that shows in a few words a major boon. This poem changed my gut feeling of fear of my "wrongness".
This PM I was chatting with a friend who is struggling with his marriage because his wife is (IMO) in a SERIOUS confrontation with the same energies we all are facing. She is generally feeling so without power that she both SHOVES her power away and then feels resentful anger and cannot forget what others do with it. She is unaware of the inner conflict and is somatizing her process. She does not tolerate any reflections from him because she feels already so "worth less" that any suggestions feel sharp and unloving. She has shut down a lot and stays home brooding but feeling guilty for "not contributing". IMO many are experiencing spiraling out of a lifetime of suppressed pain.“Come, come, whoever you are,
wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving,
it doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times.
Come, come again, come.”
― Rumi
I feel MOST empowered by the a NEW day every day and chance to leave the past in forgiveness. I told my friend when I last saw her about my visceral sense of being loved, aided and supported by something wholely dependable which LOVES me. She has a "god" who is out there and judges. She feels she has failed to serve this deity because she is "sinful".
We make vows and then feel shame about breaking them and a huge power returns when we know we are forgiven (by god ourselves). I love Rumi more than any other poet.
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