Where everything is music - Rumi inspired

Where Everything is Music by Rumi!

Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn't matter.
 
We have fallen into the place where everything is music
 The strumming and the flute notes 
rise into the atmosphere, 
and even if the whole world's harp should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.
 
So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.  This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.  
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge 
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!

They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can't see. 
 Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, 
and let the spirits fly in and out. ~ Rumi

I know I haven't been here much in the blogging world lately....
Life has taken a funny turn ...I seem to have no routine...which has kept me off balance
Though I have many upcoming deadlines....since I left the Dunedin Creativity Art Retreat....
where I met so many fabulous creative souls...the week long meditation retreat was wonderful,
challenging in some aspects and great for me to push my boundaries...Molly Swan was an absolutely
inspiring leader...and I highly recommend her lovely gentle style of teaching the 'dharma'...she shared
this fabulous Rumi poem with us...
Since then though I feel like I haven't really stopped the 'slowed down' pace...
usually I have such great energy, I get 12 hours work done in a 6 hour span..
but that work horse energy seems to have vanished...all around me I see the piles of work 
to be done and can't seem to get moving on them.
Yes and even the lack of routine has taken my inspiration...
I think it is back to the morning pages, morning sits..
waking up early but it also means getting to bed at a decent time too....

Anyway, enough about my lack of energy...

I am hoping to create a body of altered books using the encaustic medium inspired by Rumi's poems
and intertwined with Leonard Cohen's work ....if any of you have thoughts to share on this 
please let me know I am hoping to connect with others to explore this idea.  Some of the greatest 
sources of inspiration come from the community of sharing via the blog and in art circles...for 
which I am deeply grateful...share any thoughts you might have...

This show is my very first solo show in November..and I would really like 
to begin working on this during the end of Sept.  I love the searching...longing that both writers,
and musicians convey in their work..the searching for soul, the longing for soul connection --which is so 
much of what my creative journey has been about lately.
I am looking for any poems you like by Rumi, or words by Leonard Cohen..any thoughts at all..
would be appreciated....