Project 365

Welcome! This is my own 365 project of creating at least one post per day about the stuff that I learnt, achieved, and found, the stuff that made me happy, or the new thing I did every single day.

The project was started on 21 February 2010. It has stopped for few times but I am determined to continue!

This project is dedicated to myself. I want to feel grateful for every single thing I have. I want to be thankful for my own life. I just want to feel that I have enough.

Tag: rumi

Let the beauty we love be what we do

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Move the way love makes you move

Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to.
Don’t try to see through the distances.
That’s not for human beings.
Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Yes, I gotta keep walking, though I don’t know where this path leads me to. I live in the present and that’s the only thing I can see. "Now" is where I belong. And I don’t want to let my fear controls me. Because fear looks too much on the future and I’m not supposed to see it.

Fight for the fear and live the life we have now.

The Middle Path

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language,
even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

So, I’ll meet you in that field?

The Supreme Soul

Until you’ve found pain, you won’t reach the cure
Until you’ve given up life, you won’t unite with the supreme soul

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

True. When we are happy, sometimes we forget to be thankful to The Creator. When we suffer, that’s when we try to search for Him.

May Allah SWT always protects us and makes us one of those people who always remember Him. Amin.

Reaching The Pearl

How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend’s hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Surrender

The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon
So powerful I fell to the ground 
Your love has made me sure 
I am ready to forsake this worldly life
and surrender to the magnificence of your Being

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

So beautifully written. It makes me wonder, when will I find You? Yes, you, whose love made me sure to forsake this worldly life. And whose love made me surrender to the magnificence of your Being.

Whoever you are, don’t hide. Don’t walk away. Walk slowly so I can find your footpath. And eventually find You.

My heart will be taken

One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Love is the cure…

Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Why Pretend?

In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

A Joy is Found

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi