Why to live Deeper in the Heart

In a season of fasting, a little feast of reflections from Rumi:

Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

Surrender.

Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.

You have been stony for too many years.

Try something different –

Surrender.

Not only the thirsty seek the water,

the water as well seeks the thirsty.

I open the window

and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ~ Rumi

Photos courtesy Nelson Ashberger.