Monday, 26 February 2018

The Illuminated Rumi by Coleman Barks




All quotes from Coleman's book



You sit here for days saying, This is strange business.  You're the strange business.  You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.




Listen to the story told by the reed of being separated.  Since I was cut from the reed bed I have made this crying sound.  Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say: Anyone pulled from a source longs to go back.




Don’t move the way fear makes you move.




We all know things that get better when we pay attention to the breath.  We're more in the moment, more present, more true.  There are things to do. Enlightenment unfolds as it will, but there are ways to become more accessible  to it.  Practices. Meditation. Vigils. Fasting. Walks. What you give time and attention to.




Don't pray to be healed, or look for evidence of "some other world".  You are the soul and medicine for what wounds the soul.




Be source. Not result.