VIDEOS
In Quest of the Meaning of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ISc-AU3SLc
What is NA?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I86ZeBItr64
Why a School of Philosophy Today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11QOCxL1VnI
Volunteering in NA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r8MH4gqCbI
Karma Seminar - Laws of Nature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkhIAFlNym8
RUMI
BE
MELTING SNOW
(Barks, 1997, p. 13)
Totally conscious, and apropos of nothing, you come to see me.
Is someone here? I ask.
The moon. The full moon is inside your house.
My friends and I go running out into the street.
I'm in here, comes a voice from the house, but we aren't
listening.
We're looking up at the sky.
My pet nightingale sobs like a drunk in the garden.
Ringdoves scatter with small cries, Where, Where.
It's midnight. The whole neighborhood is up and out
in the street thinking, The cat burglar has come back.
The actual thief is there too, saying out loud,
Yes, the cat burglar is somewhere in this crowd.
No one pays attention.
Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God,
God is in the look of your eyes,
in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self,
or things that have happened to you
There's no need to go outside.
Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.
A white flower grows in quietness.
Let your tongue become that flower.
Photo Gallery
Melanie Anderson and David Hirschorn present poetry and music at Mystic Poetry of Rumi Open-mic night. Melanie's favorites were Be Melting Snow and The Turn.
Alireza Danaie presents A Radiant Mars from a small book of Rumi poems in Farsi he has had since his childhood.
David Hirschorn as Synesius and Gwinneth Bragdon as Hypatia perform Remembering Hypatia at the Academy Theater. (Photo courtesy of Michael Birnbaum)
New Acropolis Members participated in a Habitat for Humanity Build, May 2009.