Rumi’s Poems

Episode 114

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a selection from Rumi’s poem “The Center of the Fire.”

The mystery does not get clearer by repeating the question,
nor is it bought with going to amazing places.

Until you’ve kept your eyes
and your wanting still for fifty years,
you don’t begin to cross over from confusion.

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Episode 113

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a selection from Rumi’s poem “Dissolver of Sugar.”

Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.

Love moves away.
The light changes.

I need more grace
than I thought.

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Episode 112

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a selection from Rumi’s poem “Only Breath.”

There is a way between voice and presence
where information flows.

In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.

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Episode 111

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a selection from Rumi’s poem “The Fragile Vial.”

The Absolute works with nothing.
The workshop, the materials
are what does not exist.

Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

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Episode 110

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a selection from Rumi’s poem “Saladin’s Begging Bowl.”

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere,
cloudcover thick. I try to stay
just above the surface, yet I’m already under
and living within the ocean.

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Episode 109

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a selection from Rumi’s poem “The New Rule.”

This that is tormented and very tired
tortured with restraints like a madman,
this heart.
Still you keep breaking the shell
to get the taste of its kernel!

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Episode 108

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a selection from Rumi’s poem “Burnt Kabob.”

But listen to me: for one moment,
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you. God.

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Episode 107

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a selection from Rumi’s poem “Special Plates.”

Notice how each particle moves.
Notice how everyone has just arrived here
from a journey.
Notice how each wants a different food.
Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up,
and how all streams stream toward the ocean.

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