Dear friends,
Rumi wrote, “if you want the kernel you must first break the shell.” The sweet meat of the pecan, the almond, the walnut, is hidden within its protective shell. Is it the same with the human mind? Is there a protective shell of fixed beliefs, unexamined thoughts, out-dated emotions that we think we need to protect ourselves? What is behind or under this structure we have built, this house we live in?
Rumi said to tear down the house, is the Sufi way to God. That the beyond we all seek is on the ground, underneath our constructed reality. He placed the Divine right where we are, within our own being, on the ground in this dimension. He did not teach that physical death was an entrance into the realization of Spirit, but that the destruction of false ideas was the way. He, like every enlightened teacher encouraged us to sit in silence and to release or “lose our life” every day.
Rumi was revered in his day, many centuries ago, and is the most popular poet of our times as well. It is because his words ring true with us. We feel the authenticity of his words, sensing his personal experience of them. That is why Jesus and Buddha and Eckhart are relevant today. They taught Truth. They were practical and generous in their desire to see humans liberated from superstition and dogma. I would count Ernest Holmes in that group and Emmet Fox and Emma Curtis Hopkins. There have always been, and are today, people who see the hidden potential in humanity and the ordinary miracle of discovering it for ourselves. They are the voices of New Thought and they are in your neighborhood.
Stay tuned in,
