RUMI DAYS
Daily readings of the 13th Century Persian poet as translated by Coleman Barks
Sunday, September 5, 2010
That Quick
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A lover looks at creekwater and wants to be that quick to fall, to kneel all the way down in full prostration. A lover wants to die of his...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
The Fish Way
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The ocean way is the fish way of the watersouls of fish who die becoming the sea. Fish do not wait patiently for water. In this world full...
Friday, September 3, 2010
Put This Design in Your Carpet (2)
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Carpet from Konya, the place where Rumi died, in present day Turkey. Rumi celebrants call the day Rumi died his "Wedding Day," ...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Put This Design in Your Carpet (1)
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Spiritual experience is a modest woman who looks lovingly at only one man. It is a great river where ducks live happily, and crows drown. ...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
We Three
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My love wanders the rooms, melodious, flute notes, plucked wires, full of a wine the magi drank on the way to Bethlehem. We are three. The...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Entering the Shell
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Marc Chagall, Village by Night Love is alive , and someone borne along by it is more alive than lions roaring or men in their fierce cour...
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Monday, August 30, 2010
You Are Most Handsome
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Think that you're gliding out from the face of a cliff like an eagle. Think that you're walking like a tiger walks by himself in t...
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