Mother How Are You Today …..

By Maywood
Mother, how are you today?
Here is a note from your son,
With me everything is okay.
Mother, how are you today?

I Have Emptied My Heart

by Dr. Shahid Athar
For long time I treated my heart
Like a big trash can

There is a candle in your heart…

Jalaluddin Rumi
There is a candle in your heart,
ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
You feel the separation
from the Beloved.
Invite Him to fill you up,

These Spiritual Window-shoppers

Jalaludin Rumi
These spiritual window-shoppers,
who idly ask, ‘How much is that?’ Oh, I’m just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.
What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.
Where did you go? “Nowhere.”
What did [...]

I’ve Said Before that Every Craftman

Jalalludin Rumi
I’ve said before that every craftsman
searches for what’s not there
to practice his craft.
A builder looks for the rotten hole
where the roof caved in. A water-carrier
picks the empty pot. A carpenter
stops at the house with no door.
Workers rush toward some hint
of emptiness, which they then
start to fill. Their hope, though,
is for emptiness, so don’t think
you [...]