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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters - sometimes very hastily - but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved ( Read more... ) -
Rumi is always a beautiful read
WORD FOG
Words, even if they come from the soul, hide the soul,
as fog rising off the sea covers the sea,
the coast, the fish, the pearls.
It is noble work to build philosophical discourses,
but they do block out the sun of truth.
See God's qualities as an ocean.
This world is foam on the purity of that.
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"Her skin is white cloth,
and she’s all sewn apart
and she has many colored pins
sticking out of her heart.
She has many different zombies
who are deeply in her trance.
She even has a zombie
who was originally from France.
But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets
too close to her,
the pins stick farther in."
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Today's Daily Rumi was an old favorite:
The Drunkards and the Tavern
I'm drunk and you're insane, who's going to lead us home?
How many times did they say,
"Drink just a little, only two or three at most"?
In this city no one I see is conscious;
one is worse off than the next, frenzied and insane.
Dear one, come to the tavern of ruin
and experience the pleasures of the soul.
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Dear whiskey,
I tried but we just can't be friends anymore.
You make me sick. Please never come near me again. -
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Being a strong person means knowing that
in the end everything is going to be okay.
If something is meant to be then you have to know
that no matter what, it will find a way.
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