rumi

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i think reading Rumi rearranges everything in my brain and makes room for calm.

The poem posted is one of my favorites of Rumi's

Here a few more and a link to one of many websites.

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field. I'll 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

doesn't make any sense.

From Essential Rumi by Barks

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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.

Don't go back to sleep.

From Essential Rumi by Barks

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" " This We Have Now " "

This we have now

is not imagination.

This is not

grief or joy.

Not a judging state,

or an elation,

or sadness.

Those come and go.

This is the presence that doesn't.

From Essential Rumi by Barks

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See,

there are no

edges to this garden.

Sweet fruits,

every kind

you can think of,

branches green

and always

slightly moving.

—Rumi

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Journeys bring

power and love

back into you.

If you can't

go somewhere,

move in the passageways

of the self.

They are like

shafts of light,

always changing,

and you change

when you

explore them.

—Rumi, trans. by J. Moyne and C. Barks

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Today like every

other day, we wake up

empty and frightened.

Don't open the door to

the study and being reading.

Take down the dulcimer.

Let the beauty we love

be what we do.

There are hundreds

of ways to kneel

and kiss the ground.

—Rumi, trans. by J. Moyne and C. Barks

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