Tonight the NewsHour did a wonderful retrospective about Rumi’s poetry. Search for:
Afghan Poetry
Jeffrey Brown reports on what's behind the popularity of Afghan poet Jelauddin Rumi's poems.
Which reminded me of a quote we have in our bathroom:
Out beyond the idea of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
The full poem goes:
Out beyond the idea of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.
From Essential Rumi
by Coleman Barks
see: http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/Rumipoetry1.html
and of course there is my very favorite Rumi Poem:
http://ubnotorious.blogspot.com/2007/04/welcome-to-my-blog.html
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