"...the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been."
Meher Mount
Your Friday photo…
One late summer evening, photographer and guest caretaker Juan Mendez took this photo of the Topa Topa Bluffs as seen from Meher Mount. Long-time volunteer Sam L. Ervin suggested these words from the Sufi poet Rumi.
“There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it’s always been.”
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, also known as Rumi, was a 13th century poet and Islamic scholar. Avatar Meher Baba enjoyed listening to Rumi's poetry and praised him as one of the greatest minds of all mystical and spiritual literature.
Source
Coleman Barks, “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi,” p.91, Shambhala Publications, 2000. (Selections from Rumi’s epic poem, Mathnawi.)