1
Praise for the unnameable mystery.
2
Open your heart. Feel the closeness with God. Look inside yourself. Tend the awareness there.
3
My heart feels like flowers opening along a branch.
4
I see the essence of being alive as water flowing from the invisible to here, then back there.
5
Human beings have it in them to receive grace and taste the wine of eternity.
6
The divine mystery is part of everything and everyone.
7
We are led in ways we will never understand.
8
Great changes and shifts occur in me that I cannot describe, but they are very real. Ways open. A fragrance from the divine comes through.
9
I look into my soul and see that it is a warm spring with the presence filling every drop.
10
Each being flies toward its home … on wings of longing.
11
I want to feel the divine being pouring through me every moment.
12
You stay busy with daily matters so you won’t have time to consider the larger ones. "Why am I here?" "What do I most deeply love?" "How shall I use the time left?"
13
When you hunt for God … is your search alive and trembling?
14
I have observed nothing in this life more powerful than the deliciousness of love … the God-pulsing delight.
15
My intellect, perceptions, and memory are tufts of flowers in the hand of mystery.
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NOTES
The above quotes are from The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi, tr. Coleman Barks and John Moyne (HarperSanFrancisco, 2004). The page number citation for each quote follows.
1. p. xli
2. p. 4
3. p. 5
4. p. 5
5. p. 18
6. p. 26
7. p. 51
8. p. 58
9. p. 62
10. p. 66
11. p. 88
12. p. 93
13. p. 107
14. p. 113
15. p. 122
