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Quote by Coleman Barks
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identi
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity… like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral… – Coleman Barks

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Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin. – Coleman Barks

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[Rumi’s words are an] expression of praise and grief and gratitude and play. – Coleman Barks

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Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened…. Let the beauty we love be what we do. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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Across time, place, and culture, Rumi’s poems articulate what it feels like to be alive, and they help us understand our own search for love and the ecstatic in the coil of daily life. – Lee Briccetti

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Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, Here I am! – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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