Ruminations

Hi everyone!  Welcome to The True-Love Blog written by AngelMarie...Lilac Avonlea.

Today I am ruminating.  I am also wondering if the word ruminate has roots in the name of an ancient Turkish poet named Rumi.  I mistakenly called him Remi in one of my video blogs a few weeks ago.  But since my faux pax, I have done the proper research and discovered the beautiful poetry that made him so famous.  He was a poet-philosopher (my favorite kind) and someone I believe I am a kindred spirit with.

So let us start with a definition, shall we?  I like to refer to definitions of words...sometimes the roots of words really show us a deeper meaning.  I am a word-person.  So:

Ruminate:

ru·mi·nate/ˈro͞oməˌnāt/

Verb:

Think deeply about something: "we sat ruminating on the nature of existence". (of a ruminant) Chew the cud.

Aha!  So Ruminating is thinking.  The idea of chewing cud would also suggest that we are thinking over and over about something with the intention of getting deeper understanding.  A cow will chew it's cud in an effort to assist digestion by further breaking down otherwise indigestible things.

Some of what life throws into our path can be just that- indigestible!  But we have to so-called "swallow it" anyway, right?  Have you ever had an experience like that?  Have you ever had a situation that was undesirable appear in your life and you had to just accept it?  You wanted to allow your feelings to run wild...anger, frustration, fear....but for the sake of others or your own pride, you just needed to swallow it.  This happens to every single person.  We cannot always have our way 100% of the time.

But let's go back to ruminating about ole' Rumi.  He was a philosopher-Love expert-poet.  I would love to have the courage to write about Love in the ways he has done.  I find his views beautiful and inspiring.  Rumi often refers to the love of two hearts as one...I believe he understood the Twin Flame ideal.  I think he believed in it.  I love love.  I wish more people felt the desire to embrace love.  In order to truly allow love to work in your life and in your heart, you MUST get to a place where you are able to love everyone in the way they need to be loved.

I wish to give you a very specific example.  Suppose you are in an unhappy love relationship...a marriage for example.  You will certainly find it difficult to show or feel love for the spouse who is causing you unhappy feelings.  So from there, you will have a severe blockage in your journey to loving yourself completely or to loving others.  In my way of seeing things, this further adds to problems in your life by blocking opportunities for you.  It also causes a blockage of vision that comes from real love.  Once again, this is my opinion.  But I believe strongly that with this kind of blockage, you will not have clear vision and you will make many mistakes.  Later, when that vision is clear, you will see things much easier.

See beyond phenomena and these difficult questions,
will dissolve into love within love.~Rumi♥

The mirror of the HEART has no limits.
~Rumi

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
~Rumi

Never lose HOPE, my HEART, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
~Rumi

Elimination of blockages like this requires effort and hard work from the heart.  It is not enough to live a life that looks like it is complete from the outsiders eye.  For years, I have remained in a relationship (a marriage) that looked like everything was fine...from the outside.  To the outside eye, we look like the caring and balanced family.  We travel together and our children are happy and developing well.  But underneath we are not unified by love.  We love each other...enough...to get by...but that is not Real Love.  I have a deeper Love for some of my friends then I do for the man I have been married to all these years.  I know that I can love him better than this.  But I cannot love him better by staying here and growing angry at him for being the blockage in my life.  I need to let go and trust that the relationship will heal itself.

When we are in the wrong job or the wrong relationship or the wrong influence in general, there is a nagging feeling in the gut that will not cease.  The problem is that most of us interpret that as indigestion.  We go to the doctor and we get a pill.  What we ought to be doing is getting spiritual guidance and help with the soul.  The first step is to listen closely to what your Inner Self really wants...this is your True Desire.  It is perfectly normal to be afraid to pursue it.  But speaking as a person who has ignored this prompting several times now and who has created an opening by which I could change but then backed out at the last minute on more than one occassion...I KNOW what I am talking about.  Fear keeps us in the cycle and keeps us blocked from our destiny.

My friends, we are all on this journey together.  I will see you on the road...you are my brothers and my sisters.  I love you all.

Love Everyone you meet today...and Be Blessed,

AngelMarie