Divan of Shems of Tabriz - Rumi

When my bier is carried on the day of my death
Don't think my heart remains in this world.

Don't weep for me or cry, "Woe!Woe!"
Such sadness is the devil's snare.

When you see my hearse, don't cry, "He's gone, gone!"
Remember, union and encounter are mine in that hour.

When you commit me to the grave, don't say:"Good bye, good bye."
The grave is a curtain concealing the community of Paradise

After looking upon descent, consider resurrection;
To the sun and the moon, is setting a calamity?

To you death is setting; in truth it is rising.
Though the grave seems like a prision, it comes as the soul's release.

What seed buried in earth doesn't grow?
Why doubt the growth of the seed in man?

What bucket lowered doesn't come up brimming?
Why should the spririt's Joseph complain at the well?

Shut your mouth on this side of death, open it beyond.
Your song will be trumphant in nowhere's air.

Emotional Insecurity

A person who is emotionally insecure lacks confidence in their OWN value, and one or more of their capabilities, lacks trust in themselves or others, or has fears that a present positive state is temporary, and will let them down and cause them loss or distress by "going wrong" in the future.

Overall, a person who is insecure always needs "reference points" to confirm his confidence, without which he is not clear about his own state of mind.

A few signs:
"Need to have a setting of authority to feel power and confidence"
"When opposed, feel the urgency of fighting back and straigthening things up. Can not take a losing situation"
"Rarely let go, good or bad"
"Need to have money to feel rich and always feel that there is not enough"
"Say things like "This woman married a man 20 year her senior for his money, just for his money" - a sign of pessimism of self-value and natural charm"
" Feel proud sleeping with someone younger or beautiful or rich or famous"

 

Marriage Solution

Woman: "Let's get married!"
Man: "Why do you want to get married?"
Woman: "That would make me happy."
Man: "Are you not happy now?"

The woman thought a while and applied a customer centric approach: "I keep you well fucked; I let you financially and emotionally burden-free; I make you spiritually lifted."
Man: "Let's keep it this way then!"

God saw that they can not reach a conclusion and turned them both into gays. They went to the street to protest in order to get married.

 

May 8th - White Lotus Day in momory of Madame Blavatsky

History has not been kind to the controversial Helena Petrovna and her passion for spiritual truth. But then history may be too short a time to give us a real perspective on the Immortals. For such the stubborn genius Blavatsky most certainly was…and is.

The Golden Stairs as written by her.

A clean life, an open mind, a pure heart, an eager intellect, an unveiled spiritual perception, a brotherliness for one’s co-disciple, a readiness to give and receive advice and instruction, a loyal sense of duty to the Teacher, a willing obedience to the behests of TRUTH, once we have placed our confidence in and believe that Teacher to be in possession of it; a courageous endurance of personal injustice, a brave declaration of principles, a valiant defence of those who are unjustly attacked, and a constant eye to the ideal of human progression and perfection which the Secret Science depicts: these are the golden stairs up the steps of which the learner may climb to the Temple of Divine Wisdom.

Principles

Live in the know; Die progressed