By ryan October 22, 2014 Poem rumi What Hurts the Soul? Mysore, India We tremble, thinking we're about to dissolve into nonexistence, but nonexistence fears even more that it migh...
By ryan October 13, 2014 Poem rumi No Expectations A spirit that lives in this world and does not wear the shirt of love, such an existence is a deep disgrace. Be foolishly in love, because l...
By ryan October 13, 2014 Monday Inspiration quote rumi Monday Inspiration: Silence “ This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopp...
By ryan June 24, 2014 rumi Monday Inspiration: Rumi "Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon’s reflection. To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness. We ...
By ryan March 27, 2014 Poem rumi Split The Sack Why does the soul not fly when it hears the call? Why does a fish, gasping on land, but near the water, not move back into the sea? What kee...
By ryan July 20, 2013 Poem rumi The Breeze For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn’t decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being cal...
By ryan March 24, 2013 chickpeas kino led primary rumi Led Primary with Kino in LA: The Eternal Boiling of the Chick Pea Just finished the first day of Kino's workshop here at Omkar108 in Los Angeles. We had two sessions today: Led primary earlier in the m...
By ryan December 26, 2012 Poem rumi When We Pray Alone We are brought thick desserts, and we rarely refuse them. We worship devoutly when we are with others. Hours we sit, though we get up quickl...
By ryan March 16, 2012 India Mysore rumi WEEKend! Taken in Mysore, India "Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." ...
By ryan March 15, 2012 rumi Discipline Taken in Mysore, India Let’s ask God to help us to self-control : for one who lacks it, lacks His Grace. The undisciplined person doesn’t w...
By ryan March 11, 2012 Poem rumi Unchartered Taken in Mysore, India You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun ...
By ryan March 11, 2012 Poem rumi There is One Thing Taken in Mysore, India THERE IS ONE THING There is one thing in this world which you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else ...
By ryan February 19, 2012 love Poem rumi Gamble Everything for Love Taken in Mysore, India Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reac...