Rumi: Coleman Barks , The Essential Rumi

Coleman Barks , The Essential Rumi — Rumi

Coleman Barks , The Essential Rumi

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With thee how should we be afraid of loss O thou, who turnest every loss to gain — Rumi
With thee hell would he a mansion of delight With thee a prison would be a rose — Rumi
Thou hadst not seen a single blind man seated on the moat-edge, Had they sought — Rumi
The life of this world is a truce between opposites. — Rumi
Deus est omnium rerum causa immanens, non vero transiens — Benedictus de Spinoza
Slight me not zealot, go thou hence ashamed For naught is slight that has by God — Hafez
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, — Ralph Waldo Emerson
ἡδονήν, μέγιστον κακοῡ δέλεαρ — Plato
Oh, what women are here! — Anton Chekhov
Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight? — Christopher Marlowe
The fountain of death makes the still water of life play. — Rabindranath Tagore
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is b — Henri Bergson