{"id":19182,"date":"2012-05-10T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=19182"},"modified":"2012-05-10T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:44:11","slug":"rumi-if-you-put-your-hands-on-this-oar-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/rumi-if-you-put-your-hands-on-this-oar-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumi – If you put your hands on this oar with me.."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"If you put your hands on this oar with me, they will never harm another, and they will come to find they hold everything you want.<\/p>\n

If you put your hands on this oar with me, they would no longer lift anything to your mouth that might wound your precious land \u2013 that sacred earth that is your body.<\/p>\n

If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives in us.<\/p>\n

Exuberant is existence, time a husk.
\nWhen the moment cracks open, ecstasy leaps out and devours space;
\nlove goes mad with the blessings, like my words give.<\/p>\n

Why lay yourself on the torturer\u2019s rack of the past and the future? \u00a0The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities will find no rest.<\/p>\n

Be kind to yourself, dear \u2013 to our innocent follies.
\nForget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance.
\nYou will come to see that all evolves us.<\/p>\n

~ Rumi ~<\/p>\n

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