Thought Wings

Ustrasana Variation. New  Orleans, August 2015. Photo: MBuffett
Ustrasana Variation. New Orleans, August 2015. Photo: MBuffett

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overfilled with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin…

You knock at the door of reality, shake your thought-wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

-from The Gift of Water by Rumi

Praise The Sun Praise The Ocean

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“SOLO”, Perdido Pass FL, June 2015, Photo: MBuffett
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. Praise, the ocean.
What we say, a little ship.
So the sea-journey goes on, and who knows where!
Just to be held by the ocean is the best luck we could have.
It’s a total waking up!
– Rumi, ‘Bouyancy’