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Category Archives: Passion
Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Six) What You Really Want
You’ll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is love’s confusing joy. – Rumi
For the last post in this series I come back to what I mentioned before – how as humans we live in both worlds – the butterfly and the caterpillar, the glorious dream and the messy reality, the play and the [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Five) – Work is Love Made Visible
but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is love’s confusing joy. – Rumi
When I first read his poem fifteen years ago, I thought Rumi meant romantic love. I now know that definition of love is way too narrow. Love’s confusing joy can encompass any passion in life, any connection with what we [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Four)
If you want what visible reality can give,
you’re an employee.
If you want the unseen world,
you’re not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish – Rumi
Both wishes – just wanting what visible reality has to offer or just wanting what the unseen world provides – are foolish on their own. It’s the combining of the two [...]
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Is April the cruelest month?
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
T.S. Eliot, from The Wasteland
April IS the cruelest month, if we want to stay asleep. Winter, as much as we may get sick [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Three)
If you want the unseen world,
you’re not living your truth. – Rumi
I can easily slip into grandiose ideas and day dreams of myself. I can hear some musical master play something and say to myself, “I can do that!” I can come up with a long list of ways to make a song arrangement unbelievable [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Two)
If you want what visible reality can give,
you’re an employee. – Rumi
Results. We want results. That’s what an employer is looking for. Progress, growth, success. And, as an employee, that’s the focus as well. There’s nothing wrong with being an employee, but I do the work I do because I believe that we’re more than [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy: How April’s Passion and Play Come to the Rescue of Winter’s Persistence (Part 1)
The poet T.S. Eliot began his epic poem, The Wasteland by saying, “April is the cruellest month.” By that, I think he meant that April is a time of change and awakening. And as delightful as that is, it can be hard and even painful to wake from winter’s slow and quiet grip. I usually [...]
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If at first an idea is not absurd…