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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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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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I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. – Rumi

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Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi

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If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. – Rumi

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

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