Herewith a brief quote from Jalaluddin Rumi, the Persian
mystic poet:
God’s mirror: the front is the heart,
its back the world.
I don’t know where it fits into Rumi’s work; I have it from
Idries Shah’s Caravan of Dreams,
p.80. What strikes me about it here is the amazing poetic power it shows in
rendering the very fundamental nature of our being here in this dimension. In a
way the heart is blind—and the world is infinitely diverse. And it is the heart
that truly mirrors; the back of the mirror is just coarse brown paper, a
rectangle of wooden framing, and in our day some staples to hold the paper in
place. The heart is the mirror. But, to take another quote from Rumi, this one
from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz XII:
The moment your entered this world of
form, an escape ladder was put out for you.
That ladder? Could it be the heart? As concerns heart, I’ve
noted things about it on this blog before (link).
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