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OrgoneConclusion
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Rumi
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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. ~ Rumi
Today I followed Rumi's advice. Was playing in a poker game and had to call $65 more on a draw. I lost.
Fuck Rumi! 
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LunarEclipse
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Having to make the call is not exhibiting free will. More like expensive and a lack of a will.
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DisoRDeR
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If you want what visible reality can give, you're an employee.
If you want the unseen world, you're not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love's confusing joy.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
If not, leave this gathering.
Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses.
--Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks, A. J. Arberry)
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OrgoneConclusion
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I gambled on love and lost Big Time! The queen of hearts is not always your best bet.
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champinhom
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said: Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. ~ Rumi
Today I followed Rumi's advice. Was playing in a poker game and had to call $65 more on a draw. I lost.
Fuck Rumi! 

You're not being thoroughgoing enough in follwing Rumni's injunction. You are interpreting the 65$ loss as not being in your favor. Rumi says: Don't call anything that happens unfavorable. One day it dawns on you that favorable and unfavorable are just an arbitrary spins on an actuality that is utterly beyond such designations.
-------------------- My father used to say: I don't care what else you do in life, just don't be an asshole. People, forgive me when I forget what my daddy said. Cut back the proliferating list of people whose opinions can hurt you. Unless they have done or want to do you some good, their views are just not worth tracking. Saul Bellow “People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.” Doris Lessing Those whom the gods would save, they dower with compassion. Mr. P. Silocybin
Edited by champinhom (08/27/15 03:21 PM)
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OrgoneConclusion
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In that case his saying is meaningless.
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DisoRDeR
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In the middle of the night, I cried out, "Who lives in this love I have?" You said, "I do, but I'm not here alone. Why are these other images with me?" I said, "They are reflections of you, just as the beautiful inhabitants of Chigil in Turkestan resemble each other."
You said, "But who is this other living being?" "That is my wounded soul." Then I brought that soul to you as a prisoner. "This one is dangerous," I said. "Don't let him off easy."
You winked and gave me one end of a delicate thread. "Pull it tight, but don't break it." I reached my hand to touch you. You struck it down.
"Why are you so harsh with me?"
"For good reason. But certainly not to keep you away! Whoever enters this place saying Here I am must be slapped.
This is not a pen for sheep.
There are no separating distances here. This is love's sanctuary.
Saladin is how the soul looks. Rub your eyes, and look again with love at love."
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I Have Learned So Much
I Have Learned So much from Love That I can no longer Call Myself
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself With me
That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even a pure Soul.
Love has Befriended Hafiz so completely It has turned to ash And freed Me
Of every concept and image my mind has ever known.
- Hafiz
-------------------- zen by age ten times six hundred lifetimes Light up the darkness.
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