Close your eyes, and keep turning your attention away
from the many objects of the world, mind and body, back on itself with patient
affection.
Keep it there, and resist (by ignoring not fighting) the
mind`s persistent, conditioned tendencies to distract you through thoughts of
boredom, a need to do, a sense of lack, or a deep drive to change or improve
on the present moment. If you don’t feed
any distractions, with attention or belief, you will experience a subtle upwelling
of contentment.
This contentment when experienced via thought appears
as understanding. When it is known through the senses, it takes the shape of beauty.
And when experienced through feelings, it is felt as love. Really, it’s all just
different facets of the one live, knowing, love.
If you hold on to that felt experience of love/contentment
when you re-engage the world, by letting your attention again flow outward, you
will not completely lose yourself to the powerful objects of thought and
sight.
This allows you see life through the lens of love, and look
at life through Rumi’s eyes.
Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.
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