Among Friends

[GingerPeach]

@dooBdoo

I've always found your posts to be intelligent and easy to understand.  They always make sense!  

[violann]

I also thought "Song of Solomon" after seeing the original post. The SOS is one of my favored segments of the Bible.

I find the various comments and interpretations here fascinating.

We had a wonderful sermon JUST LAST WEEK in Church about The Bible as literature. Neat coincidence!

[Mothertrucker]

I think OWS has just discovered that you cannot really go back and delete a thread...

[Moonchilde]

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@Mothertrucker wrote:

I think OWS has just discovered that you cannot really go back and delete a thread...

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She has done the "deleting the thread title" thing before. It actually makes people look at the thread more.

[dooBdoo]

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[onewhiteSparrow]

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onewhiteSparrow wrote:

"I abandoned and forgot myself, laying my face on my Beloved;  all things ceased; I went out from myself, leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies."

~ Saint John

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It is about a man loving so deep he "abandoned and forgot myself"..... his thoughts was totally on his "Beloved".

"all things ceased"....the whole world no longer mattered but his Beloved.  

"I went out from myself"..... his spirit left his body; to merge with his Beloved. 

"laying my face on my Beloved,".....he has his face laying on his beloved."

"forgotten among the lilies.".....her perfume was Lillies of the Valley.

~Beautiful, down right beautiful.

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[onewhiteSparrow]

"I am hopelessly in love with you, no point giving me advice.

I have drunk love's poison, no point taking any remedy.

They want to chain my feet but what's the point.

When it is my heart that's gone mad!"

~Rumi

[GingerPeach]

None of these poets were simply "happy, happy."

For example, Rumi's famous "being human is a guest house" stanza:

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.

"Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honourably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

"The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

— Rumi

[onewhiteSparrow]

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@MacDUFF wrote:

@onewhiteSparrow

Christian mystic poets...very esoteric...how did you get interested?

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@MacDUFF   As long as I can remember I been reading different kind of poems and all kinds of subjects.  

[onewhiteSparrow]

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@GingerPeach wrote:

None of these poets were simply "happy, happy."

For example, Rumi's famous "being human is a guest house" stanza:

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.

"Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honourably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

"The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

— Rumi

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@GingerPeach   The "Happy-happy was just my Topic name.  

And I added the nice poem I like that Saint John wrote.  I found it interesting years ago that a saint wrote such a wonderful love poem.   I know he was talking about god and him..... well I didn't relate to what he wrote....so I wrote my own ideas about the poem.  Which is sweet love between a man and woman.  

When we listen to music each relates different to the song.  When we look at art we each think of something different...what is within changes art for all of us.

It seems too many demand everyone to think and write and do everything the same.   They can not think outside of their own box.  

Rumi,  wrote many many love poems.   But you needed to share a sad poem.  Sad poems and me just do not go together.  Not my style to roll in sadness.  That goes for music, art, movies.

About Rumi's poem you offered us to read called "Being Human."

It is about how we feel each day and he sees our thoughts as guests.  OK.  

I would toss out those uninvited guests he wrote about in that poem.   I pick what kind of guests come into my home (being human.)  As the saying goes..."Change your mind and change your world."   Stay focused.  Create our world as happy, pleasent and full of love.