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  • 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

  • The Dancing Cry Of The Soul

    Dance soul rumi

    Love is the dancing cry of the soul, calling the body to worship
    Like a shining whirlpool, or a spinning mayfly
    So is love among the skies.

    I leap across the mountaintops, madly singing the song of all songs
    I float through the ether, intoxicated, thrilled
    I think only of your love, your calling to me
    And I dance the thousand dances of love, all returning to you.

    It is not the play of children, nor the detached unity of wise sages
    Unreal! Unnecessary!
    Where is the beauty?

    When I, like a glowing comet, may flash around your sun
    Laughing, singing, with the joy of loving you!

    Wine makes drunk the mind and body
    But it is love which thrills the soul
    When I approach you, I feel the mad pounding of love
    The singing wonder
    The joy which opens blossoms on the trees of the world.

    Come to me, and I shall dance with you
    In the temples, on the beaches, through the crowded streets
    Be you man or woman, plant or animal, slave or free
    I shall show you the brilliant crystal fires, shining within
    I shall show you the beauty deep within your soul
    I shall show the path beyond Heaven.

    Only dance, and your illusions will blow in the wind
    Dance, and make joyous the love around you
    Dance, and your veils which hide the Light
    Shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

    Rumi

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