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[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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Rumi
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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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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. – Rumi

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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. – Robert Bly

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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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Rumi

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. – Rumi

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