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  • Become the Pearl Beyond Price

    Pearl Beyond Price RumiRumi Poem – 
    becoming a real human being –
    The Pearl Beyond Price

    Thought I would try a little poetry by Rumi (Coleman Barks – Like This) with images.

     

  • The Pearl Beyond Price

    One of my favorite Rumi poems (translated by Coleman Barks – Like This)

    Yesterday at dawn, my Friend said,
    How long will this unconsciousness go on?
    You fill yourself with the sharp pain of Love,
    rather than its fulfillment.

    I said, “But I can’t get to You!
    You are the whole dark night,
    and I am a single candle.
    My life is upsidedown
    because of You!”

    The Friend replied, I am your deepest being.
    Quit talking about wanting Me!

    I said, “Then what is this restlessness?”

    The Friend, Does a drop
    stay still in the Ocean?
    Move with the Entirety, and
    with the tiniest particular.
    Be the moisture in an oyster
    that helps to form one pearl.

    Oyster = ego shell
    Moisture = human vulnerability
    Pearl = real human being

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  • Lovers

    Roses lovers almaas hafiz

    When you are a lover, you’re personal, but you have no boundaries that separate you from your lover. – A.H. Almaas

    The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.

    Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,
    they’re in each other all along. – Rumi

    Translator: Coleman Barks

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