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[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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[Rumi’s words are an] expression of praise and grief and gratitude and play. – 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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He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live. – Rumi

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Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free. – Rumi

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Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. – Rumi

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Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing. – Rumi

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