The Secret Hidden Beneath All of Life

Words.

Sometimes our own words are the best way to help, convey, lift, inspire, connect, and reach others. And then sometimes we fall short, inadequate, left searching, emptiness in our hands, blank pages, circling our minds, and stillness in our imagination. And then sometimes when we feel the lack, the reason we can’t find the words is because someone has already written precisely what we yearned to say.

During these uncertain times, reach inside and pull out your strength. It is there. It has never left you. And it won’t, so commit to not leaving yourself. Your words are also there. And yet sometimes silence and reverence for what other beings have expressed is exactly the resonance that needs to emerge from you. Relish in this and be without burden, for you are receiving grace from another’s heart.

Here they are, for you, sweet souls, the timeless words of Sufi poet Rumi…

I hear it and weep. In sublime reverence, I bow to this living, beating, loving heart of the universe. It echoes throughout all of creation. Once, some time ago, I was deaf. I had not heard one true sound. Much noise, but no truth. So I believed in many things not worth believing in.

Then in a moment of my crisis that cracked my heart open, I was given a gift. Though I felt fear and confusion, a gift came to me more powerful than those temporary ailments. That gift was the ability to hear the sound hidden beneath all of life. I heard it, that sacred sound of the beating heart of universal love. Now I know that belief in unworthy things--like fear and doubt--is lunacy. Even my loneliness became unconvincing to me. 

We are animated by this living heartbeat, part of life that is sustained by it. You and I, the planets, the birds and the fishes, emerges from the great source because of this beating heart of the universe. It pumps life through our veins! What proof of this is needed? You live. That is the proof. I hear it everywhere now. It has become so loud. Louder than any word of fear. It resonates through my soul and eclipses any tremor of anxiety.

- Rumi Oracle, An Invitation into the Heart of the Divine

With love,