Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. Ill meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesnt make any sense. From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks Light Breeze As regards feeling pain, like a hand cut in battle, consider the body a robe you wear. When you meet someone you love, do you kiss their clothes? Search out whos inside. Union with God is sweeter than body comforts. We have hands and feet different from these. Sometimes in dream we see them. That is not illusion. Its seeing truly. You do have a spirit body; dont dread leaving the physical one. Sometimes someone feels this truth so strongly that he or she can live in mountain solitude totally refreshed. The worried, heroic doings of men and women seem weary and futile to dervishes enjoying the light breeze of spirit. From Soul of Rumi by Coleman Barks Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet Im already under and living with the ocean. From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks The translations on this page from the books, The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, The Glance by Coleman Barks, and Soul of Rumi by Coleman Barks. 2 3 4 If you want what visible reality can give, youre an employee. If you want the unseen world, youre not living your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but youll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy. From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks Only Breath Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or in the next, did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being. From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks Birdsong brings relief to my longing Im just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please universal soul, practice some song or something through me! From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks Not Intrigued With Evening What the material world values does not shine the same in the truth of the soul. You have been interested in your shadow. Look instead directly at the sun. What can we know by just watching the time-and-space shapes of each other? Someone half awake in the night sees imaginary dangers; the morning star rises; the horizon grows defined; people BECOME friends in a moving caravan. Night birds may think daybreak a kind of darkness, because thats all they know. Its a fortunate bird whos not intrigued with evening, who flies in the sun we call Shams.
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