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

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[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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What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I’ve lived too long where I can be reached. – Rumi

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The mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe that when you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear, as you yourself do at dawn, sailing through the light. – Rumi

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…my heart sinks like a comb into wave after wave of your silky hair. – Rumi

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You are a fountain of the sun’s light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky. – Rumi

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