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The Essential Rumi
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May 5, 20
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On the tavern
In the tavern are many wines ... Being human means entering this place where entrancing varieties of desire are served. The grapeskin of ego breaks and a pouring begins.
...
But after some time in the tavern, a point comes, a memory of elsewhere, a longing for the source, and the drunks must set off from the tavern and begin the return. The Qur'an says, "We are all returning." The tavern is a kind of glorious hell that human beings enjoy and suffer and then push off from in their search for truth. The tavern is a dangerous region where sometimes disguises are necessary, but never bide your heart, Rumi urges. Keep open there. A breaking apart, a crying out into the street, begins in the tavern, and the human soul turns to find its way home.
May 5, 20
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May 5, 2020
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Started Reading
May 5, 2020
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May 5, 2020
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0.48%
"All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
...
Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
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Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
...
Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
December 18, 2020
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4.83%
"This is how it always is
when I finish a poem.
A great silence overcomes me,
and I wonder why I ever thought
to use language."
page
20
when I finish a poem.
A great silence overcomes me,
and I wonder why I ever thought
to use language."
December 20, 2020
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12.8%
"Let yourself be silently drawn
by the stronger pull of what you really love."
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53
by the stronger pull of what you really love."
December 22, 2020
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30.19%
"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor."
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125
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor."
December 24, 2020
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55.31%
"You want proof that the sun exists, so you stay up
all night talking about it. Finally you sleep
as the sun comes up."
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229
all night talking about it. Finally you sleep
as the sun comes up."
December 28, 2020
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64.98%
"You drive me away gently
as a flute song does a dove
from the eaves.
With the same song
you call me back.
You push me out on many journeys;
then you anchor me with no motion at all."
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269
as a flute song does a dove
from the eaves.
With the same song
you call me back.
You push me out on many journeys;
then you anchor me with no motion at all."
December 28, 2020
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100%
"No better love than love with no object,
no more satisfying work than work with no purpose.
If you could give up tricks and cleverness,
that would be the cleverest trick!"
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416
no more satisfying work than work with no purpose.
If you could give up tricks and cleverness,
that would be the cleverest trick!"
December 28, 2020
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Finished Reading
