Tuesday 5 September 2017

Rumi’s Little Book of Love and Laughter by Coleman Barks



All quotes from Coleman’s book



May God cause you to change your life in the way you know you should.  



I am not contained by this Universe. If every tip of every hair on me could speak, I still couldn’t say my gratitude. In the middle of streets and gardens, I stand and say and say again, and it’s all I say, “I wish everyone could know what I know”. 


Fear is an attribute of those who think they serve God. 



Having the idea is not living the reality. 



These pains you feel are Messengers. Listen to them.  Turn them to sweetness. The night is almost over.  You were young once, and content, now you think about money all the time you used to be that money.  You were a healthy vine. 



Many demolitions are actually renovations. 



There is a way that leads from all---colors to colorlessness. Know that the magnificient variety of the clouds and the weather comes from the total simplicity of the sun and the moon. 



One way of seeing sees only a road. Another sees a home. It’s always home. 



Be patient. Respond to every call that excites your spirit. Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back toward disease and death. 



To be clearer: part of a True Person is inside Time, and part is beyond Time. The Time-part dies. The Other is the Good Friend of Forever.