RUMI DAYS

Daily readings of the 13th Century Persian poet as translated by Coleman Barks

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A Turning Night

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This moment, this love, comes to rest in me, many beings in one being. In one wheatgrain a thousand sheaf-stacks. Inside the needle's ...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

How We Move Inside Grace (2)

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Water is the story of how we are helped. Hot baths prepare us to enter the fire. Only salamanders can go directly in without an intermediar...
Monday, March 29, 2010

How We Move Inside Grace (1)

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When our water here becomes saturated with pollution, it gets led back to the original water, the ocean. After a year of receiving starlig...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Joseph

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Joseph has come, the handsome one of this age, a victory banner floating over spring flowers. Those of you whose work it is to wake the d...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

A Wished-For Song

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You are song, a wished-for song. Go through the ear to the center, where the sky is, where wind, where silent knowing. Put seeds and cover...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

The Orchard

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Come to the orchard in spring. There is light and wine and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers. If you do not come, these do not mat...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

A Bowl

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Imagine the time the particle you are returns where it came from. The family darling comes home. Wine, without being contained in cups, i...
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