Note:
I’ve seen Rumi quotes before and found them interesting, salient, and resonating. I’ve stayed away from Rumi both because he wasn’t Christian and he was a mystic. In the Christianity I became familiar with, you just didn’t listen to non-christian music, you didn’t read non-christian stuff, and you definitely didn’t read from other religious traditions. This is a journey for me because this quote is true to my present situation - a situation lasting years. It’s the tear down and a existential crisis of such grand proportions that to some degree life has been, and still is, a bit paralyzing. In discovering that Christianity is a diverse sea of debate, argument, slaughter, and sword, as much as it’s anything else, I’ve since learned [quite uncomfortably] that no matter where you land in that religion’s sea, you’re a heretic to someone. And for some swim zones, it literally doesn’t take much to be one. So, I’m reading a little Rumi - who is interesting, over my head, strange, and at times, deeply true to my life. Here’s to exploration and learning to swim in the sea of life again. [Clink of glasses].
