quatrain 894

From sunlight, three versions of quatrain #894:

With every word, you break my heart.
You see my story
written in blood on my face,
why do you ignore it,
do you have a heart of stone?

translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi
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Every day, this pain. Either you're numb
or you don't understand love.
I write out my love story.
You see the writing, but you don't read it.

version by Coleman Barks
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Every day my heart cries out.
Every night it turns to stone.

The story of my love
is written in blood all over my face.
I asked by Beloved to read it.
He asks me to ignore it.

version by Jonathan Star

philosophy of mysticism

From the article on Mysticism at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

We should be suspicious of taking the practice of identifying physical objects as paradigmatic for all epistemology.

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kinds of experience

From Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in The Phenomenon of Man (1955):

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

source: wikiquote
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quatrain 216

From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #216:

If this me is not I, then
who am I?
If I am not the one who speaks, then
who does?
If this me is only a robe then
who is
the one I am covering?

Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999

the one you know me
as me it isn't me
who do you think it is
I utter no words with my tongue
who do you think it is
I'm only a shirt
from my head to my toes
the one whose shirt is me
who do you think it is

Translation by Nader Khalili
"Dancing the Flame"
Cal-Earth, 2001