Relax into your life. ‘Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own. I looked inward and the beauty of my own emptiness filled me until dawn.’ These words of Rumi always stir my heart with a lingering sweetness. Yet when I actually apply the meaning I can honestly say I have not always felt the beauty of my own emptiness. What about you? Are you able to not only accept your own emptiness but find joy in it? For most of us, when sensations of feeling empty come around we seek to figure out what is wrong…or fill the hole with ‘something’ sometimes just a distraction and sometimes a genuine attempt to ameliorate the inner discomfort or move into the fullness that feels to be our birthright. Is the inner discomfort a sign to ‘do something’ to be filled again? Maybe. Maybe it is a flag that we have chosen poorly for the fulfillment of our souls. Maybe not. Maybe the inner emptiness is allowing us to both taste an aspect of ourselves, and to be filled in an utterly unforeseen way if we will allow. Allow. Allowing is not just a passive activity, not just the resignation that comes when we hit the wall and can go no further. Allowing can be quite active, a stepping into a new realm of hope and faith, a noticing the contrasts of rich and poor, full and empty, and growing up in the face of it; ceasing to fidget in our seats because we do not want to be empty, and relaxing into our life. Allow. How can you allow today? Allowing is a step into the direction of the beauty of our own soul filling us until dawn. This filling is more subtle than the ways we have perhaps enjoyed fulfillment, yet more lasting. Rumi’s words go on a bit further in the poem, ‘Within the cavern of my soul I heard the voice of a lover crying, ‘drink now! Drink now!’-- I took a sip and saw a vast ocean Wave upon wave caressed my soul….’ Sip the wine within. Allow. Relax. How can you relax into your life today?
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:02:45 +0000
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