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Rumi
Jan 5, 2012 5:24:05 GMT -5
Post by sh on Jan 5, 2012 5:24:05 GMT -5
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.
--Mowlana Jalal al-din Mohamad Balkhi aka Rumi
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Rumi
Jan 5, 2012 5:33:21 GMT -5
Post by sh on Jan 5, 2012 5:33:21 GMT -5
Why should I seek? I am the same as he.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself! -Rumi
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P.S. In Farsi there are no third person singular pronouns that distinguish male from female. There is "ooh" (pronounced like food) and it means both he and she. So, I think there is no way Rumi could have said "he" or "his," as the words don't exist in Farsi.
P.P.S. Reading Rumi's poetry in Farsi is like magic, IMO. One might feel like the universe is speaking through his words. A lot of that magic is lost in translation.
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Rumi
Jan 5, 2012 5:52:14 GMT -5
Post by sh on Jan 5, 2012 5:52:14 GMT -5
Wealth has no permanence: it comes in the morning,
and at night it is scattered to the winds.
Physical beauty too has no importance,
for a rosy face is made pale by the scratch of a single thorn.
Noble birth also is of small account,
for many become fools of money and horses.
Many a nobleman's son has disgraced his father by his wicked deeds.
Don't court a person full of talent either,
even if he seems exquisite in that respect:
take warning from the example of the serpent.
The serpent had knowledge, but since his love was not pure,
he saw in Adam nothing but a figure of clay. -Rumi
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Rumi
Jan 5, 2012 5:57:28 GMT -5
Post by sh on Jan 5, 2012 5:57:28 GMT -5
The spirit is like an ant, and the body like a grain of wheat
which the ant carries to and fro continually.
The ant knows that the grains of which it has taken charge
will change and become assimilated.
One ant picks up a grain of barley on the road;
another ant picks up a grain of wheat and runs away.
The barley doesn't hurry to the wheat,
but the ant comes to the ant, yes it does.
The going of the barley to the wheat is merely consequential:
it's the ant that returns to its own kind.
Don't say, "Why did the wheat go to the barley?"
Fix your eye on the holder, not on that which is held.
As when a black ant moves along on a black felt cloth:
the ant is hidden from view; only the grain is visible on its way.
But Reason says: "Look well to your eye:
when does a grain ever move along without a carrier?" -Rumi
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