One, One, One

 

The lamps are different, 
But the light is the same.
So many garish lamps in the dying brain's lamp-shop, 
Forget about them.
Concentrate on essence, concentrate on Light.
In lucid bliss, calmly smoking off its own holy fire,
The Light streams towards you from all things,
All people, all possible permutation of good, evil,
thought, passion.

The lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,
Endlessly emanating all things.
One turning and burning diamond,

One, one, one.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down,
To blind loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes. 

 

Light upon Light

Inspirations from Rumi,
by Andrew Harvey with photographs by Eryk Hanut; 1996, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley

Drawing on three decades of devoted study, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey offers fresh interpretations of more than 250 selections from Rumi's major works: the Discourses, the Diwan, the Mathnawi, the Odes, and the Rubaiyat, as well as excerpts from his letters. Arranged in five sections, these poems, quotations, parables, and discourses create a mystical symphony which mirrors the stages of the spiritual journey into Love.

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