I love studying the great mystical writers.  Their words are so directly inspiring because they often feel like the very word OF God rather than someone just writing ABOUT Spirit.  I aspire to that myself in my writing, and there’s no question that many times I feel I’m that pure vessel and the words inspire me as I write them.

Rumi and Hafiz are two Sufi poets from Persia who have inspired me to a heavenly vibration.  I adore Christian D. Larson, the great Christian mystic.  Vincent Van Gogh was a mystic both in his writing and painting.

When I experience the work of the mystics, I feel in tune with the infinite myself, I feel the connection and there’s a rush of inspiration.  The mystical writers inspire me to go to source myself for more inspiration.

Here is one of my very favorite poems:

What was said to the Rose

What was said to the rose that made it open
was said to me here in my chest.

What was told to the cypress that made it strong
and straight, what was whispered to the jasmine

so it is what it is, whatever made sugarcane
sweet; whatever was said to the inhabitants

of the town of Chigil in Turkestan that makes
them so handsome, whatever lets the pomegranate

flower blush like a human face, that is being
said to me now. I blush. Whatever put eloquence

in language, that’s happening here. The great
warehouse doors open; I fill with gratitude,

chewing a piece of sugarcane, in love with
the one to whom every ‘that’ belongs!

by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Translated by Coleman Barks

Rumi, The Book of Love – Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Rumi, like Hafiz, drips words like the most sublime and sacred honey onto a page with seeming effortlessness.  Much as Mozart heard the music fully written and wrote it down, it does seem as though Rumi simply took divine dictation, but we don’t know.  Whatever his process, the words are miracles of clear spiritual expression.  Thank you, Rumi!

Thank you for the very thought of “what was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest.”  Thank you!  “The great warehouse doors open; I fill with gratitude … in love with the one to whom every ’that’ belongs!”

Let’s take that inspired Love and share it this holiday season – spread it and extend it, magnify and multiply it – just because we can!

Let that be our gift!

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