Coleman Barks Rumi Quote Come Come Again You Have Broken Your Vows a Thousand Times
Welcome to my page of quotations compiled from the diverse translated whirling words of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, as well as some quotes at the bottom of the page about Rumi and his translators. My discovery of Rumi came in 1998 when I stumbled upon The Illuminated Rumi past Coleman Barks and Michael Green. Over the years my collection has encompassed a wider variety of translators — a few of which unfortunately I must admit are as of yet unknown to me. Although Barks and other interpreters are criticized for their modification of earlier English translations and defendant that their "translations" are not truthful to the course and intent of the original Persian, it cannot be denied that their modernized works stir the soul and have brought much of the English-speaking world's attention to this centuries-erstwhile poet. So whether the words are Rumi or Rumi-inspired with a fair bit of poetic license, I hope you relish all the same every bit I beg forgiveness from this long-lost soul on behalf of the modernistic authors who have clothed his words with the embellished style of our contemporary language. And to y'all, dear reader, may your soul flower into mystical blossoms of poetic ecstasy!—tεᖇᖇ¡·yard
Love's secret is ever lifting its head out from under the covers, "Here I am!" ~Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks
Be empty of worrying…. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open up? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. ~Rumi, every bit interpreted by Coleman Barks
Clothing gratitude similar a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. ~Rumi
Hear blessings dropping their blossoms effectually y'all. ~Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. ~Rumi, as interpreted past Coleman Barks
In your lite I larn how to love. In your beauty, how to brand poems. You dance inside my chest, where no i sees you, but sometimes I practise, and that low-cal becomes this art. ~Rumi, every bit interpreted by Coleman Barks
Exist melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. ~Rumi, as interpreted past Coleman Barks
God turns you from one feeling to some other and teaches by means of opposites, so that yous will accept two wings to fly, not ane. ~Rumi, as interpreted by Camille and Kabir Helminski
Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in some other form. ~Rumi
Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one smashing turning, our souls are dancing with you, without anxiety, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? ~Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks
Sell your cleverness and buy cliffhanger… ~Rumi, translated by Edward Henry Whinfield
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gilt lies within you? ~Rumi
Today, like every other day, we wake upwards empty and frightened…. Let the beauty nosotros dear be what we do. ~Rumi, equally interpreted by Coleman Barks
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the globe. ~Rumi
Poems achieve up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can't see. Cease the words now. Open up the window in the heart of your chest, and permit the spirits fly in and out. ~Rumi, equally interpreted by Coleman Barks
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well when a strong rope is in my hand? ~Rumi, every bit interpreted by Jonathan Star
A surreptitious freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. ~Rumi, equally interpreted by Coleman Barks
My caput is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My eye is expanding a thousand fold. ~Rumi, translated past Shahram Shiva
Every bit you start to walk out on the way, the style appears. ~Rumi
Y'all were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? ~Rumi
Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison house wall. Escape. ~Rumi
Lightning, your presence from ground to heaven, no ane knows what becomes of me, when you take me so chop-chop. ~Rumi
How tin I know anything about the past or the future, when the calorie-free of the Honey shines only Now. ~Rumi
What I well-nigh want is to leap out of this personality, and so to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived likewise long where I can exist reached. ~Rumi
Very petty grows on jagged rock. Be basis. Be crumbled, so wildflowers volition come up where you are. ~Rumi
Ignorance is God'southward prison house. Knowing is God's palace. ~Rumi
This earth's existence is one dark long. At that place's a great lively gathering that night, simply some people sleep through it. ~Rumi
If you lot are irritated by every rub, how will y'all be polished? ~Rumi
There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open up into Low-cal. ~Rumi
Whosoever knoweth the power of the trip the light fantastic, dwelleth in God. ~Rumi
Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. ~Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks
Can y'all detect another market like this? Where, with your 1 rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? ~Rumi
At night, I open up the window and ask the moon to come and printing its face against mine. Breathe into me. Shut the language-door and open up the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window. ~Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go dorsum to sleep. ~Rumi
This is how we are with wine and beautiful nutrient… nosotros want and nosotros get drunkard with wanting, so the headache and bitterness afterward. ~Rumi
And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in wintertime. It's quiet, but the roots are downwardly at that place riotous. ~Rumi
The cadre of the seen and unseen universe smiles, merely remember smiles come up best from those who weep. Lightning, so the pelting-laughter. ~Rumi
I take lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside! ~Rumi
The fashion the dark knows itself with the moon, exist that way with me. Or, alternately translated, Union is a raging river running toward the sea. Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O love, exist like that to me. ~Rumi
In each moment the burn rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And comport you a one thousand steps toward your goal. ~Rumi
Earlier decease takes away what you are given, requite away what there is to give. ~Rumi
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to run across the sunlight dancing every bit i with the shadows. ~Rumi
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just equally ecstatic every bit they are, simply with nada to say. ~Rumi
Come up, whoever yous are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn't affair if you lot've cleaved your vow a thousand times, nonetheless and still again come! ~Rumi
Isn't it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire? ~Rumi
Who gets upward early on to discover the moment light begins? ~Rumi
Your legs volition get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting. ~Rumi
All 24-hour interval I think nigh it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to cease up there. ~Rumi
This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I become back around to that place, I'll be completely sober. ~Rumi
I cannot stop asking. If I could sense of taste 1 sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. ~Rumi
I am fe resisting the near enormous magnet there is. ~Rumi
You lot sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You take the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of operations of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, then you won't take to become coins. ~Rumi
You've gotten drunkard on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't brand y'all wild. It's fire. Surrender, if yous don't understand by this time that your living is firewood. ~Rumi
Allow yourself exist silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. ~Rumi
Work in the invisible world at least as difficult equally you do in the visible. ~Rumi
Rise up nimbly and keep your strange journey to the ocean of meanings…. Leave and don't await away from the dominicus as you lot get, in whose light yous're sometimes crescent, sometimes total. ~Rumi
Keep walking, though there'due south no place to go to. Don't endeavour to see through the distances. That'south non for human beings. Move within, but don't move the mode fear makes you move. ~Rumi
Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a muddy cup. ~Rumi
End interim so pocket-size. Y'all are the universe in ecstatic motion. ~Rumi
At that place is a way of animate that's a shame and a suffocation and there's another way of expiring, a dear jiff, that lets you open up infinitely. ~Rumi
Go on knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who'southward there. ~Rumi
There'south a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more than, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music…. When yous're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should…. ~Rumi
The mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe that when you push off with your foot, a chiliad new roads become clear, as you yourself exercise at dawn, sailing through the light. ~Rumi
Gamble everything for honey, if y'all're a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. ~Rumi
Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You lot set out to observe God, only then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses. ~Rumi
No one knows what makes the soul wake up and so happy! Maybe a dawn cakewalk has diddled the veil from the face of God. ~Rumi
…a great God-wrestling does on within these wanderers… ~Rumi
…the cypress tree is turning light-green, drunkard with the forest. ~Rumi
Let the waters settle and y'all will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own existence. ~Rumi
…rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky. ~Rumi
He is a letter of the alphabet to everyone. You open it. It says, Live. ~Rumi
Don't turn abroad. Go on your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. ~Rumi
Into my heart'south night
Along a narrow manner
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day.
~Rumi
Love comes with a knife, non some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! ~Rumi
Honey is a madman, working his wild schemes, violent off his clothes, running through the mountains…. ~Rumi
Come out here where the roses take opened. Let soul and world meet. ~Rumi
Y'all've been walking the ocean's edge, property up your robes to keep them dry out. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a m times deeper! ~Rumi
Don't put blankets over the pulsate! Open completely. Allow your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur. ~Rumi
What does this patch-sewing mean you inquire? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch information technology with food and other ego-satisfactions. ~Rumi
This is how I would die into the dear I have for you: as pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight. ~Rumi
That injure we embrace becomes joy. Telephone call information technology to your arms where it can change. ~Rumi
I don't regret how much I honey, and I avoid those who repent their passion. ~Rumi
There is i way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. And so, there'due south another way: a breath of love that takes y'all all the way to infinity. ~Rumi
You lot must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear downwardly parts of an old building to restore it, and then information technology is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it. ~Rumi
To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with some other dragon, the life-energy of the soul. ~Rumi
When your dear contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no affair what the weather, you're in an open up, windy field with friends. ~Rumi
Water the fruit copse and don't h2o the thorns. ~Rumi
Purify your optics, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms. ~Rumi
How will yous know the difficulties of being man, if you're e'er flight off to blueish perfection? ~Rumi
Where will y'all found your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. ~Rumi
If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and become a seeker of hearts. ~Rumi
If all y'all can do is crawl, kickoff crawling. ~Rumi
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a low, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes every bit an unexpected visitor. Welcome and attend them all! Fifty-fifty if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your business firm empty of its piece of furniture, all the same treat each guest honorably. He may be immigration you out for some new please. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, run across them at the door laughing, and invite them in. ~Rumi
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweet that comes after grief. ~Rumi
Permit yourself become living poetry. ~Rumi
Don't knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren't you? ~Rumi
There is a fountain within you. Don't walk effectually with an empty saucepan. ~Rumi
Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if yous've known it from earlier the beginning of the universe. ~Rumi
You are a fountain of the sun'southward lite. I am a willow shadow on the footing. You brand my raggedness silky. ~Rumi
You fill yourself with the precipitous pain of love, rather than its fulfillment. ~Rumi
I do non know who lives here in my breast, or why the grinning comes. I am not myself, more the blank green knob of a rose that lost every leafage and petal to the morning wind. ~Rumi
Something opens our wings, something makes boredom and hurt disappear. ~Rumi
When I am with you lot, we stay upwardly all night
When you are not hither, I tin can't get to sleep
Praise god for these ii insomnia!
And the difference between them.
~Rumi (John Moyne & Coleman Barks)
Inside of us, there's a continual fall. Our leaves autumn and are diddled out over the h2o. ~Rumi
If these poems repeat themselves, then and then does Spring. ~Rumi
In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll exercise then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. Ane moment information technology's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns biting, and I pull away. But then y'all spill a little grace, and just like that, I'1000 all lite. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually. ~Rumi
This love is the rose that blooms forever. ~Rumi
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not allow them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. ~Rumi
All religions, all this singing, i vocal. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun's light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot unlike on this other i, but it'due south still one light. ~Rumi
If you lot knew yourself for even one moment, if y'all could merely glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn't slumber then deeply in that firm of dirt. Why not motion into your house of joy and smooth into every scissure! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and ever accept been. Didn't you know? ~Rumi
…my middle sinks like a comb into wave subsequently wave of your silky hair. ~Rumi
If you desire to be more live, dearest is the truest wellness. ~Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks
And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow. ~Rumi
I turn all thorn and then, but yous come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled. ~Rumi
Try another manner of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing. ~Rumi
This evening the moon kisses the stars. ~Rumi
And even if this world burns up hidden harps volition still play here. ~Rumi
Fifty-fifty when tied in a thousand knots, the string is notwithstanding but one. ~Rumi
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruit other than sorrow and joy. ~Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. ~Rumi
Trip the light fantastic in the middle of fighting. Trip the light fantastic toe in your blood. Trip the light fantastic toe when y'all're perfectly free. ~Rumi
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover exist. ~Rumi, every bit interpreted by Coleman Barks
Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild
Those who fret nearly such things
Aren't in love.
~Rumi, as interpreted by Deepak Chopra
Only from the eye tin can you touch the sky. ~Rumi
'Tis the fire of beloved that inspires the flute,
'Tis the ferment of honey that possesses the vino.
~Rumi, translated by E.H. Whinfield [Per Whinfield, Love signifies the strong attraction that draws all creatures back to reunion with their Creator.—tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in y'all, a joy. When activity come from another department, the feeling disappears. ~Rumi
If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone effectually yous would fly up like doves. ~Rumi
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. ~Rumi
The wound is the place where the Calorie-free enters you. ~Rumi
Be occupied, and then, with what you actually value and permit the thief take something else. ~Rumi
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, and then your heat tin can raise my soul upward like a cloud. ~Rumi
Come up sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness. ~Rumi
You get from hamlet to hamlet on your horse asking everyone, "Has anyone seen my horse?" ~Rumi
The ocean of the trunk crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross. ~Rumi
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. ~Rumi
Quotations almost Rumi and His Translators
Across time, place, and culture, Rumi's poems articulate what it feels similar to exist alive, and they help us understand our ain search for honey and the ecstatic in the whorl of daily life. ~Lee Briccetti
Rumi volition transform yous, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming. ~Jerry Stahl
[The] combination of mystical richness and bold adaptations of poetic forms is the central to [Rumi's] popularity… ~Jawid Mojaddedi
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. ~Robert Bly
[Rumi] is trying to get usa to feel the vastness of our truthful identity… similar the sense you might get walking into a cathedral… ~Coleman Barks
Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human being is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure cached in the ruin. ~Coleman Barks
[Rumi'south words are an] expression of praise and grief and gratitude and play. ~Coleman Barks
What I deeply want… is for Rumi to go vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both commonage and uniquely private, that happens exterior fourth dimension and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self. ~Coleman Barks
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good office responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi'southward verse is really remarkable. ~Huston Smith
Some translators plough an author's words from gilded to stone; others befit them with wings which exalt the words to heaven. ~Terri Guillemets[Coleman Barks! —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
Good verse, similar music or a sweetness touch, can md us up, be an antidote for an 60 minutes or longer, assist the states to get dressed for some other twenty-four hour period—gainsay the dejection enough to mount the equus caballus once more; and maybe even aid one in laying downward the insidious weight of some old grudge or deep-rooted anxiety. Herein enters Rumi…. draws us near to his—and our own—inner lite…. From head to toe this guy is blazing. He is like a whirlwind i wants to exist drawn into… ~Daniel Ladinsky
Source: https://sufism15.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/quotations-by-inspired-by-and-about-rumi/
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