Project 365

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires
the lower self may obtain,
it hangs on to them,
refusing to let them go out of greed for more,
or out of fear of poverty and need

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of live.
In the end, to take a step without feet;
to regard this world as invisible,
and to disregard what appears to be the self.

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

I don’t want to reach the secret sky, but I am halfway up there. I let myself fly. And I don’t even know what I’m thinking….

Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who is there.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Don’t go anywhere without me.
Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,
or on the ground, in this world or that world,
without my being in its happening.
Vision, see nothing I don’t see.
Language, say nothing.
The way the night knows itself with the moon,
be that with me. Be the rose
nearest to the thorn that I am.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come.
Some things that don’t happen keep disaster from happening.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

There’s nothing worse than to walk out along the street without you.
I don’t know where I’m going.
You’re the road and the knower of roads,
more than maps, more than love.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

We are the night ocean filled with glints of light.
We are the space between the fish and the moon,
while we sit here together.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

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.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along. — Rumi

The Rumi book that I ordered 3 weeks ago has finally arrived! I’m so happy.

In total, I have 9 other books waiting to be read. I’ve already started reading few pages of Rumi, quarter pages of Bill Clinton’s Giving, some pages of Karen Amstrong’s Muhammad, and John Roosa’s Dalih Pembunuhan Massal. I’ve been trying to keep myself contented and busy — and reading these books have been quite enjoyable.

Even so, I thought of buying the famous Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, after watching its BBC TV series on YouTube, featuring one of my favorite actors, Colin Firth who really fit into the character of Mr. Darcy I must say! Few years ago, I watched Pride & Prejudice’s movie adaptation, and I remember how I really loved it!! That’s why I came to think of buying the book. I know that I hate classic English literature, but that’s because its constructions of words are hard to understand. But I really want to learn. I want to get used to it. I want to be able to feel and understand the beauty of those words.

But anyhow, I was happy to find the full version of Pride & Prejudice on Google Books! So I decided to read it online in the meantime — perhaps I’ll buy it once I read all of those 9 books.