RUMI DAYS

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

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Flower's Eye

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Find me near the flower's eye that takes in provocation and begins to grow. Love is a baby that struggles and fights, stops nursing, the...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

The Nothing of Roselight

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Death comes, and what we thought we needed loses importance. The living shiver, focused on a muscular dark hand, rather than the glowing c...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Your First Eyes

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A lover has four streams inside, of water, wine, honey, and milk. Find those in yourself and pay no attention to what so-and-so says about...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

The Healing Presence

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  A Beggar with a Wooden Leg, by Rembrandt van Rijn I go to the one who can cure me and say, I have a hundred things wrong. Can you combi...
Friday, May 28, 2010

A Grape

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If you would say I don't exist, I would be grateful. When this longing makes me disreputable, then I have a little self-respect. A vi...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Certain Sunfish

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If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off y...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Discipline

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painting by Louis Comfort Tiffany: Algerian Shops Don't avoid discipline. You have learned ways to make a living for your body. Now le...
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