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

Other quotes by Coleman Barks
[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

Category:
Rumi
Read Quote

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

Category:
Rumi
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Rumi
category

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God. – Rumi

Category:
Rumi

Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? – Rumi

Category:
Rumi

You’ve been walking the ocean’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper! – Rumi

Category:
Rumi

When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. – Rumi

Category:
Rumi

Random Quotes

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized womens movement of the late 1960s and 70s. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Women

Im very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, were all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film. – Jeff Bridges

Category:
Art

During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state. – Jane D. Hull

Category:
Health

Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. Its awesome to hear, its amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way. – Kirsty Coventry

Category:
amazing