I knew I cannot skip this
meeting anymore, it was going to happen eventually, and it was my life's nightmare.
I knew however I tried, I cannot
prevent it.
I entered the meeting room.
"Hello” I said and then I nodded my head approving that I am
there.
I am sitting in the meeting
room, with no one but myself.
I talked and started the
meeting.
Knowing why I tried to prevent
it.
I am not happy with myself, and
we are not having peace in living together.
A big fight happened, and we
agreed that we must had a meeting.
I (we) had a coffee, and I (we)
talked.
Sometimes I can do anything in
this world rather than exploring myself and questioning myself what I am doing.
As if, I am living a perfect life, as if I am faultless.
I do not like to discover
defects in myself, no one wants to be judged, and we all seek
self-righteousness. We tend to help people to be better by advising them.
Although I intentionally prevent myself from my great advice which I insist on giving it to others.
Rumi said, "Yesterday
I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am
changing myself “
Jesus said in the book of Mark, “Why do you see the speck that is in your
brother's eye but do not notice or consider the beam [of timber] that is
in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, Brother, allow me to take
out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself do not see the beam that
is in your own eye? You actor (pretender, hypocrite)! First take the beam out
of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in
your brother's eye.”
“Changing myself is what is
important, and how can I change myself without really sitting with myself?” I questioned "If not on daily bases, so at least every other day."
"Do you mean pray
more?" I asked myself.
I replied, "No, I mean
passing time with myself."
Mawlana Jalal Eldein el Rumi is
a “Sufi” poet, who understands the paradox of
loving ourselves and loving others.
He was an enlighten man whose
writings affected the entire world.
He had famous quotes, full of
wisdom, “There is nothing outside of yourself, Look within, and
everything you want is there- you are that”
Rumi also said, "Your
task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it."
It is deleting the barriers,
which I should work on. It is sinking inside my soul to meet my creator.
We learn about what is right
and what is wrong -in our eastern culture. Rather than exploring ourselves,
rather than exploring the beauty of others. Our target on dealing with others
turned into discovering the defects in them.
Many parents think that their
role in life is to only to guide their kids and giving them continuous
instructions, you should do that and you should not do that and that. Instead
of loving them and encourage them to love themselves and love others humbly.
Our souls trapped, unexplored.
Covered with pain and groves.
Judgment and condemnation, and
full of sorrows and regrets. With guilt and shame, which we transfer it into
rudeness, indifference and unforgiveness.
Many pain makes you imagine
that you can just ignore and continue your life. However, this will never
happen, unless we sit with ourselves, receive forgiveness from God and learn to
forgive ourselves.
Mmm, I am not writing this to
anyone to read it.
This is for me!
This is the minutes of meeting
with myself, which summarized by;
“Sit with myself, look inwardly
to discover the spirit of God inside me.
Clear all barriers blocking my love.”
"When will you begin that long journey into yourself" Rumi
Picture from website: http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/beautiful-rumi-quotes-that-will-motivate-you-to-be-a-bett
It has more quotes for Rumi.
For more quotes this site: http://esotericquotes.com/rumi/
http://theway2fullconsciousness.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/100-quotes-by-rumi-to-live-by/
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