Chapter Twelve
Being at Home in Your Life
The way the soul is with the senses and the intellect is
like a creek. When desire weeds
grow thick, intelligence can't flow, and soul creatures
stay hidden. But sometimes
the reasonable clarity runs so strong it sweeps the clogged
stream open. No longer weeping
and frustrated, your being grows as powerful as your wantings
were before, more so. Laughing
and satisfied, the masterful flow lets creations of
the soul appear. You look
down, and it's lucid dreaming. The gates made of light
swing open. You see in.
- Rumi
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Chapter Twelve - Suggested References
Books:
- From A. H. Almaas
Diamond Heart Book I: Elements of the Real in Man, by A.H.Almaas - see Diamond Heart I
Diamond Heart Book II: The Freedom to Be, by A.H.Almaas - see Diamond Heart II
Diamond Heart Book III: Being and the Meaning of Life, by A.H.Almaas - see Diamond Heart III
Diamond Heart Book IV: Indestructible Innocence, by A.H. Almaas - see Diamond Heart IV
The Inner Journey Home, by A.H.Almaas, see Inner Journey
- From Coleman Barks
The Essential Rumi, translations by Coleman Barks - see Essential Rumi
A Year with Rumi, by Coleman Barks - see Year with Rumi
The Glance, by Coleman Barks - see Glance
The Illuminated Rumi, translations by Coleman Barks with illustrations by Michael Green - see Illuminated Rumi
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems, translated by Coleman Barks - see Soul of Rumi
- From Ramesh Balsekar
Consciousness Speaks: Conversations with Ramesh Balsekar, by Ramesh Balsekar - see Consciousness Speaks
Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj, by Ramesh Balsekar - see Pointers
- From Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That, by Nisargadatta Maharaj - see I Am That
- From Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers - see Power of Myth
The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Commemorative Edition (Bollinger Series-General), by Joseph Campbell and Clarissa Pinkola Estes - see The Hero
- From Paul Hawken
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, by Paul Hawken - see Hawken . Watch Paul describe the genesis of the book at Blessed Unrest.
- From Other Distinguished Authors
Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training With a Sufi, by Irina Tweedie - see Daughter of Fire
The Nine Faces of Christ: A Narrative of Nine Great Mystic Initiations of Joseph, Bar, Joseph in the Eternal Religion, by Eugene Whitworth - see Nine Faces
The Master Game: Pathways to Higher Consciousness (Consciousness Classics), by Robert S. de Ropp and Iven Lourie - see The Master Game
Eating the I: An Account of the Fourth Way, by William Patrick Patterson - see Eating the I
The Last Barrier: A Journey into the Essence of Sufi Teachings, by Reshad Feild - see The Last Barrier
