Experience.

 

Experience is a hard teacher,

it gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

 

CS Lewis.

The door.

 

One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked.

A voice answered, "who is there?"

He answered, 'it is I'

The voice said, "there's no room for me and thee."

The door was shut.

 

After a year of solitude and deprivation

the man returned to the door of the Beloved.

He knocked.

A voice from within asked, "who is there?'

The man said, 'it is Thou.'

The door was opened for him.

 

Rumi.

 

You are.......

 

You are the trips I did not make

you are the pearls I could not buy

you are my blue Italian sky

you are a piece of foreign sky,

 

you are my heart's unuttered tune

you are a candle in my nights

you are the flowers in my rains

you are a bit of blue in my dark sky.

 

Anne Campbell.

 

 

Yoga.

 

Yoga teaches us

to cure what need not be endured

and endured what cannot be cured.

 

B.K.S.Iyengar

 

 

 

 

The Freshness.

 

The Freshness.

a poem by Rumi.

 

 

 

Red.

 

The poorer we are inwardly,

the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.

 

Bruce Jun Fan Lee.

Harmony.

 

All can do good as food only because there is evil

Therefore having and not having arise together

Difficult and easy complement each other

Long and short contrast each other

High and low rest upon each other

Voice and sound harmonize each other

Front and back follow one another.

 

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching Chapter 2

translation by Gia Gu Feng and Jane English.