Coleman Barks Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.”
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“These poems need to be released from their cages,”
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“[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral...”
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“Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.”
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“What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.”
-- Coleman Barks
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