Rumi, the Great

Taken From: "The Essential Rumi"
Translated by: Coleman Barks
HarperCollins Publishers, 1995


Drink all your passion,
and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes
to see with the other eye.

Open your hands,
if you want to be held.

Sit down in this circle.

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Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence