tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122767252012-02-02T13:29:30.943+11:00<b>stuff on alchemy, art, feminism, food, <br />gnosis, sufism, tennis, writing, etc</b>Arizonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074267752763783513noreply@blogger.comBlogger6651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12276725.post-9731293782963068822011-11-10T13:55:00.003+11:002011-11-10T13:59:29.057+11:00

From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #337:There is a channel between voice and presence,a way where information flows.In disciplined silence the channel opens.With wandering talk, it closes.Version by Coleman BarksUnseen Rain, Threshold Books, 1986There is a thread from the heart to the lipswhere the secret of life is woven.Words tear the threadbut in silencethe secretsspeak.Translation by

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Herman Cain "You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America"Matthew Dowd: CEO of Self: Americans Are Hungry for Herman Cain's Brand of LeadershipGod Bless America: A 9-11 Tribute from Herman Cain.

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Ten years have gone by since we in Israel were shocked by the unthinkable.

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From sunlight, three versions of quatrain #55:Let the Lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone soberwill worry about events going badly.Let the Lover be.version by Coleman Barks and John Moyne, "Unseen Rain - Quatrains of Rumi", Threshold Books, 1986The Lover is ever drunk with love;He is free, he is mad,He dances with ecstasy and delight.Caught by our own thoughts,we worry about every

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #511:The clear bead at the center changes everything.There are no edges to my loving now.I've heard it said there's a window that opensfrom one mind to another,but if there's no wall, there's no needfor fitting the window, or the latch.version by Coleman BarksOpen Secret, Threshold Books, 1984His sweet water cleansed my souland removed its every sorrow.Now

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #758:any one in lovewill have no religionin the religion of lovethere is no heresy or faithlove know nobody heart or soulthere is onlyoneness and no moretranslation by Nader KhaliliRumi, Dancing the Flame, Cal-Earth Press, 2001Be certainin the religion of Lovethere are nobelievers or unbelievers.Love embraces all.translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #569:This moment this love comes to rest in me,many beings in one being.In one wheat-grain a thousand sheaf stacks.Inside the needle's eye, a turning night of stars.version by Coleman Barks, from a translation by John Moyne"Unseen Rain", Quatrains of Rumi, Threshold Books, 1986O how the Beloved fits inside my heart;Like a thousand souls in one body,A

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Sunlight offers four versions of quatrain #64, in addition to the Houshmand version discussed at rotting lips.When I die, lay out the corpse.You may want to kiss my lips,just beginning to decay. Don't be frightenedif I open my eyes.version by Coleman Barkswhen i diehand me overto my sweetheartone kisson my dead lipsdon't be surprisedif I come alivetranslation by Nader KhaliliWhen I die,lay my

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #75, to add to the version by Houshmand discussed at a room for fear:this earthly body of oursis the light of the heavensour agile flightsare the envy of angelsone day the celestial bodieswish to have our pure soulsone day we are a dare devilwho frightens a monstertranslation by Nader KhaliliRumi, Dancing the Flame, Cal-Earth Press, 2001

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Another passionate rant from the Canadian writer David Solway in The Origins of Postmodernitis:As is well known, Foucault and his acolytes were influenced by Nietzsche’s pivotal axiom from The Genealogy of Morals that “there are no facts, only interpretation,” a maxim which is intended to be taken as a fact.

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From sunlight, three versions of quatrain #91:The early breeze before dawnis the keeper of secrets.Don't go back to sleep!It is time for prayer, it is time to ask forwhat you really need.Don't go back to sleep!The door of the One who created the worldis always open.Don't go back to sleep.Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi"Rumi: Hidden Music" HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001The

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This is a quote from quite an old article (2006) but it is saying things few people dare to say:For the beginning of culture is cult. Apart from the worship of God, human beings cannot in practice (whatever may be said in theory) transcend themselves--not, at least, in the large numbers needed to sustain a civilization. Unless human beings have a vision of something larger than their own natures,

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Good main point about our current dilemma:"You can sit here and talk about jihad from here to doomsday, what will it do? Suppose you prove beyond any shadow of doubt that Islam is constitutionally violent, where do you go from there?"[...]The fact is, the West does not have the political paradigms or language to justify an offensive against an ideological foe in religious garb.from Raymond

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An excellent impassioned article on current anti-Semitism in the form of anti-Zionism or Israel bashing:In a critical passage from The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James associates evil with the concept of “dirt.” Evil, he says, is “an alien unreality, a waste element, to be sloughed off and negated, and the very memory of it, if possible, wiped out and forgotten.” It is “diseased,

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"To attain knowledge, add things every day; to attain wisdom, subtract things every day." - Lao TzuAn interesting quote from Lao Tzu but I can only find it here:source: Three Powerful Quotes on Wisdom.

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A disappointing ending to what is a thorough (at least in the sense of detailed) attempt to answer the question: "Is the Qur'an the Word of God?"In the end we are left with little on which to hold. Muslim sources are found to be questionable, while non-Muslim sources point to a dearth of any real evidence for the accurateness of the Qur'an. There is indeed, much disturbing material here with

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From sunlight, three versions of quatrain #894:With every word, you break my heart.You see my storywritten 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.Every day, this pain. Either you're numbor 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.Every day

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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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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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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #216:If this me is not I, thenwho am I?If I am not the one who speaks, thenwho does?If this me is only a robe thenwho isthe one I am covering?Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam MafiRumi: Whispers of the BelovedHarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999the one you know meas me it isn't mewho do you think it isI utter no words with my tonguewho do you think

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I felt nauseous reading this bit from a clearly "approved" Muslim:They do not realize that if a woman is condemned in Pakistan it will have an affect on Muslim women in America. And if a pastor in Florida threatens to burn the Qur'an, Muslims around the world are affected. from Akbar Ahmed: Half of the world cannot go to warHe is equating a woman on death row with a mere threat to burn a book.

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This is part of a rejected article that tells it like it is a little too clearly for some:Teaching Islam among “The World’s Great Religions” in the University of Hawaii, I learned how profoundly ignorant of one another’s religion those Christians and Muslims were. And worse than ignorant: misinformed. Growing up to the realities of our shrinking globe is painful, and obscuring differences stunts

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Ratzinger is both a philosopher and a theologian and it's hard, in this essay, to tell where the one ends and the other begins:The pathology of religion is the most dangerous sickness of the human mind. It exists in the religions, but it also exists precisely where religion as such is rejected [...] Where the purest and deepest religious traditions are entirely discarded, man severs himself from

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A nice quote from the Chinese dissident inside an article by Mansur:“Freedom of expression,” Liu Xiaobo wrote, “is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.”from Salim Mansur: Beware Of China’s Meteoric Rise

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A couple of nice quotes from American playwright and essayist Arthur Miller (1915-2005):Society is inside of man and man is inside society, and you cannot even create a truthfully drawn psychological entity on the stage until you understand his social relations and their power to make him what he is and to prevent him from being what he is not. The fish is in the water and the water is in the

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"God is properly known only when he is known as an unknown," said St. Thomas.from Pascal Bruckner: Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy, Princeton University Press, 2011..

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #257:Beyond this world and life we knowthere is Someone watching over us.To know Him is not in our power.But once in a glimpse I sawthat we are His shadowand our shadow isthe world.Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam MafiRumi: Hidden MusicHarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001out of this world and our livesthere is someonewho is nursing usthe one whom

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A strong defence of free speech by Bostom ends with a quote from Beaumarchais:Since they can’t stop a man thinking, they take it out on his hide instead.from Andrew G. Bostom: Will Conservative Media Elites Defend Lars Hedegaard?.

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Jews standing up for Jerusalem:"We're not here because of grace of world, but by the grace of G0d," he said in a Monitor interview in August 2010. "When we slap G0d in the face and say we don't want this land, we're willing to share this land … then we see the Oslo calamity."from Christa Case Bryant: Shrewd development deal likely to preclude possibility of creating Palestinian state

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An amazing summing up of where the West is at, by modern-day prophetess, Melanie Phillips:You cannot resist or overcome a threat unless you first understand its nature.The first thing to say is that this phenomenon is characteristic not just of the media animosity or economic or academic boycotts. It goes across the intelligentsia and political class, spreading well beyond the normal suspects on

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What can I say? It's here.

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A review of what sounds like a very interesting book:The “new Israeliness,” Spyer suggests, “is steeped in a comfortable [though] not particularly rigorous attachment to the symbols of Jewish tradition,” including “the Temple Mount, the Hebrew language,” and “the Jewish festivals[.]” This “immensely powerful complex of images and ideas” forms a “bedrock” of strength, ultimately more solid than

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I followed the link and read this article by Murray based on this recommendation from Barry Rubin: "It is the best single article on Western internal responses to Islam and Islamism that I've ever seen." It isn't sufficiently pointed for me, but it does come close to putting a finger on the main problems, associated with truth and with feelings. Here is the best short passage I could find to

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A French philosopher is now also weighing in on the dubious nature of this term:On a global scale, we are abetting the construction of a new thought crime, one which is strongly reminiscent of the way the Soviet Union dealt with the "enemies of the people". And our media and politicians are giving it their blessing. Did not the French president himself, never one to miss a blunder - not compare

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An example of forthright talk from true bigots:Providing an alternative to IslamThe Muslims who have abandoned Islam will need somewhere else to go. Some will abandon religion altogether and become secularists, but as most people need some sort of religious belief in their life an alternative must be provided. This means that apostates (people who have converted out of Islam) will need protection

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Good definitions and analysis here:Might these facts have something to do with reality? After all, "Islamophobia" means fear of Islam. This is quite different from hatred of Islam or wanting to kill Muslims. A Greek friend informs me that the word for hate in Greek is "misos." Thus, "Islamophobia" is not the same as "Islamomisos."In fact, what we are seeing is a rational fear in the West based

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #677:When I shed tears of blood,You made me laugh.When I was gone from this world,You brought me back.Now you ask,What about your promises?What promises?You made me break them all.-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992

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Some one line quotes from Wittgenstein, mainly from his notebooks:Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.To pray is to think about the meaning of life.To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #1080:I want to hold you close,like a harp,playing the melodies of love.But you would rather smash open this jar.Well, here I am.Here are the stones.Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992

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From sunlight, three versions of quatrain #116:Take someone who doesn't keep score,who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,who has not the slightest interest evenin his own personality: He's free.Version by Coleman Barks"Open Secret"Threshold Books, 1984happy is the onewho doesn't need to trygetting wealthyor remaining poorfree from peopleand worldly worriesa stranger to himselffree

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God does not think, he creates; God does not exist, he is eternal.Søren Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific PostscriptSketch of Søren Kierkegaard by Niels Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840from wikimedia commons

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I've just come across this philosopher (Mulla Sadra) while visiting the wikipedia page on the ontological argument. A google search under "Mulla Sadra Asfar" led me to this page at MuslimPhilosophy.com, where I found this summarising quote:Philosophy and mysticism, hikma and Sufism, are for him two aspects of the same thing. To engage in philosophy without experiencing the truth of its content

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #367. Following is the version by Zara Houshmand which I don't seem to have commented on as I can't find it in a search of the site.Like a thiefreason sneaked in and sat amongst the loverseager to give them advice.They were unwilling to listen, so reason kissed their feetand went on its way.Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam MafiRumi: Whispers of

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #533:O Beloved, today you want ever more:We're already madand yet you pullat the last threat of our sanity.You've torn away our veil,You've torn away our clothes.We're completely naked!And still you are tearing!version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #99:Do you know what the music is saying?"Come follow me and you will find the way.Your mistakes can also lead youto the Truth.When you ask,the answerwill be given."translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam MafiRumi: Whispers of the BelovedHarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999do you hearthe fiddle's surround soundfollow me andyour path will be foundonly

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From sunlight, two interpretations of quatrain #163:What is this day with two suns in the sky?Day unlike other days,with a great voice giving it to the planet,Here it is, enamored beings, your day!Version by Coleman Barks"Unseen Rain" Threshold Books, 1986what type of day is thiswith two shining sunsa day beyond and aboveevery day knowna whirling cosmos is endowingand calling everyone on

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #167, with almost diametrically opposed meanings:The Friend comes into my bodylooking for the center, unableto find it, draws a blade,strikes anywhere.Version by Coleman Barks"Unseen Rain" Threshold Books, 1986In a dream my lover camesearching through my bodyfor the state of love.When he could not find ithe drew his dagger and stabbedmy heart.Translation by

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Elsewhere, I have touched on how Islam sees truth. Here, I find a reference to how it sees justice.Depending on whether Islamists address Americans or fellow Muslims, the same exact words they use often relay diametrically opposed meanings. One example: when Americans hear Muslims evoke "justice," the former envision Western-style justice, whereas Muslims naturally have Sharia law justice in

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #419:Soul of all souls, life of all lifeyou are That.Seen and unseen, moving and unmovingyou are That.The road that leads to the City is endless;Go without head or feetand you’ll already be there.What else could you be? --you are that. Version by Jonathan StarIn the Arms of the BelovedJeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1997

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From sunlight, a translation of quatrain #534:Who says that the Eternally Living is dead,Who says that yonder Sun of Hope is dead -He is the sun's enemy; climbing onto the roof,He veiled his eyes and cried: "The sun is dead!"Translation by Annemare Schimmel"I Am Wind, You are Fire"Shambhala, 1992

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #912. The Houshmand version is discussed at teacher and taught. The versions are so different that it's hard to believe they stem from the same original Farsi (Persian). I suspect an error in the numbering.This silence is worthMore than a thousand lives,This freedom worthMore than all the empires on earth.To glimpse that truth within yourself,For even just a

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From sunlight, two further versions of quatrain #17 to add to the one by Houshmand discussed at being rude.I'm crying, my tears tell me that much.Last Spring, they say, the new green, how weak you felt.Remember any night of all our nights,but don't remember things I've said.-- Version by Coleman BarksOpen SecretThreshold Books, 1984ah tear dropsbrighten my heartclear the spring blossomsshining my

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #598:Without love,all worship is a burden,all dancing is a chore,all music is mere noise.All the rain of heaven may fall into the sea.Without love,not one drop could become a pearl.-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #79:This piece of food cannot be eaten,nor this bit of wisdom found by looking.There is a secret core in everyonenot even Gabriel can know by trying to know.-- Version by Coleman Barks"Unseen Rain" Threshold Books, 1986yearn for the biteyou cannot swallowsearch for the knowledgethat doesn't existthere is a secrethidden in the heart of holy menseek thatwhich

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From sunlight, two further versions of quatrain #65, to add to the Houshmand one discussed at quiet day.This bleating eventually stops. The wolf appears.We run off in different directions,with always some thought of how lucky we are.But nothing floats for long.Death floods in the mouth and the ear.Every head goes under and away.-- Version by Coleman BarksOpen SecretThreshold Books, 1984time will

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #784:When you dancethe whole universe dances.What a wonder,I've lookedand now I cannot look away!Take me or do not take me,both are the same –As long as there is life in this body,I am your servant.Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #494:Who sees inside from outside?Who finds hundreds of mysterieseven where minds are deranged?See through his eyes what he sees.Who then is looking out from his eyes?-- Version by Coleman BarksOpen SecretThreshold Books, 1984who is the onewho sees the externalright from withinwho is the onewho casts a hundred magic spellswhen watching the insane in lovetry

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #61:If you have a spirit, lose it,lose it to return where with one word,we came from. Now, thousands of words,and we refuse to leave.-- Version by Coleman Barks"Unseen Rain" Threshold Books, 1986If you have illusions about heavenlose them.The soul heard of one attribute of Loveand came to earth.A hundred attributes of heavencould never charm her back.It is

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Haideh Daragahi: Citizen journalism in Iran

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From sunlight, two further versions of quatrain #1854 to add to the Houshmand translation discussed at in search of water.I took a journeydead set to findyour true loveat any costat every stage I landedI saw a head beheadedI saw a life is losttrans by Nader KhaliliI travelled everywhere,following you,looking for signs of where you had been –They show me a house stacked with bodies,heads strewn on

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain # 729:never sayno one knows the waynever sayprofound humanscan't be foundjust because you're kept out ofheaven's secretsyou think everyone is like you--Translation by Nader KhaliliRumi, Dancing the FlameCal-Earth Press, 2001 You claim skill in every artand knowledge of every science,Yet you cannot even hearwhat your own heart is telling you.Until you can

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #1868:With love you cannot bargainthere, the choice is not yours.Love is a mirror, it reflectsonly your essence,if you have the courageto look in its face.-- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam MafiRumi: Whispers of the BelovedHarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999love isa mirroryou see nothingbut your reflectionyou see nothingbut your real face--

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From sunlight, two more versions of quatrain #82 to add to the Houshmand version discussed at a hundred bows.today like everydayI'm in no sober mooddon't open the doorto my thoughtsbegin the music insteadfor the one who seesonly the beloved's facethere are a hundredways to prayto prostrateor to be humbledto the ground--Translation by Nader KhaliliRumi, Dancing the FlameCal-Earth Press, 2001 Today

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From sunlight, two further interpretations of quatrain #269, to add to Houshmand's discussed at lovely one.I see His face,I see His smile –There is my joy!I feel His rageI feel His painful blows –There is my joy!But what's this?He has asked for my head!At least He has asked me for something –There is my joy!-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992I

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From sunlight, an interpretation of quatrain #454, to add to the translation by Houshmand discussed at winners and losers.To that Beloved,flower and thorn are one;A verse of the KoranAnd a Brahmin's thread are one.Don't try to impress Him –To that Beloved,hero and fool are one.-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #369:People who are sad,know not from where that sadness comes.People who are happy,know not from where that happiness comes.People who search to the left,or to the right,know not the left from the right.People who always say, "I and mine,"know not what is "I"nor what is "mine."-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #24:Dear heart, where do you find the courage to seek the Belovedwhen you know He has annihilatedso many like you before?I do not care, said my heart,my only wish is to becomeone with the Beloved.Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam MafiRumi: Whispers of the BelovedHarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999

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From sunlight, two further versions of quatrain #57, in addition to Houshmand's that I discussed under nurturing dreams.Love is our mother andthe way of our Prophet.Yet, it is in our natureto fight with Love.We can't see you, mother,hidden behind dark veilswoven by ourselves.-- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam MafiRumi: Whispers of the BelovedHarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999The

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #1332:I have grown old,but not old from the days.I have grown oldbut not old from the smiles and gamesof my Beloved.With every breathI am baked and unbaked,With every step I become the trapand the one who takes the bait.-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992if you see me getting oldit's not from thepassing of

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From sunlight, two translations of quatrain #1521:It's good to leave each day behind,like flowing water, free of sadness.Yesterday is gone and its tale told.Today new seeds are growing.trans by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafihappiness is to reachthe next post every daylike flowing waterfree from stillnessand melancholyyesterday is gone andtook away its talktoday we must livea fresh story

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From sunlight:He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the Directionless.--Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin RumiSelected and Translated by Muriel MaufroySanyar Press - London, 1997

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #1474:My heart is the rubaab, your love the bow.My soul weeps quietlyas you play me your song.Play on, my Beloved!Let me not miss one note of your melodynor one beat of your heart.-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #428:In one sweet moment,She burst from my heart.There we sat on the floor,drinking ruby wine.Trapped by Her beauty,I saw and touched –My whole face became eyes,All my eyes became hands.-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaA Garden Beyond ParadiseBantam Books, 1992

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From sunlight, two versions of quatrain #1513:without looking at youI can not touch the winewithout your handI can not win the diceyou are asking meto dance from afarwithout your musicdance will not arrive--Translation by Nader KhaliliRumi, Dancing the FlameCal-Earth Press, 2001There is no wine without You,no use for the rosary without Your hand.From afar You order me to dancebu unless You set

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From sunlight, some Mathnawi by Maufroy:If the thought of sorrow spoils your joy, yet it preparesyou for joy.Sorrow sweeps the house fiercely, emptying it ofeverything, then, coming from the Source of goodness,a new joy enters.Sorrow chases away the withered leaves in the heart,then new green leaves can grow.Sorrow uproots the previous joy, then a new delightsprings from beyond.-- Mathnawi V,

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From sunlight, this ode with a frankly sexist message in the last two lines:Once again we have left our heart, intellect, andspirit behind - the Friend has come into the midst and wehave disappeared.We have turned back from annihilation and becomewoven into subsistence; we have found the Traceless andthrown away all traces.Stirring up dust from the ocean and smoke from the nine spheres, we have

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From Sunlight, a second version of quatrain #1118, to add to the translation by Zara Houshmand under a slavery that sets free. These two translations are quite different in actual words and feelings evoked.I am filled with splendor,spinning with your love.It looks like I'm spinning around you,but no – I'm spinning around myself!version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva

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From sunlight, a translation of quatrain #1112 to add to the Houshmand version discussed at the fullness of time.all the precious words you and I have exchangedhave found their wayinto the heart of the universeone day they'll pour on uslike whispering rainhelping us arise from our roots againtrans by Nader Khalili

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From sunlight, a version of quatrain #430:You call him a moon,yet moonlight fades.You call him a king,yet kingdoms fall.How often you say,Wake up, you'll miss the sunrise.But His Sun always shines within me.How can I miss the sunrise?version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva

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Via sunlight:The Level of WordsGod has said, "The images that comewith human languagedo not correspond to me,but those who love words must use them to come near."Just remember,it's like saying of the King,"He is not a weaver."Is that praise?Whatever such a statement is,words are on that level of God-knowledge.-- Mathnawi II: 1716-1719Poetic version by Coleman Barks"Rumi: One-Handed Basket

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From sunlight, two more versions of quatrain #720. The Houshmand version is discussed at the pen and the eyelash. I must say these two are greatly inferior to her version.Your love has filled mewith a madnessno one could ever know.Your gaze has enchanted my heartwith a poemno one could ever write.version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaOne dayYou will take my heart completelyand make it more

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Jewish World Review ... QUOTE OF THE DAY"Religion is not, at the outset, a refuge of grace and mercy for the despondent and desperate, an enchanted stream for crushed spirits, but a raging, clamorous torrent of man's consciousness, with all its crises, pangs, and torments."--- Rabbi Dr. J. B. Soloveitchik

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And when, by the hair, the headsman held up the headOf Mary of Scots, the lips kept on moving,But without sound. The lips,They were trying to say something very important.excerpt from Robert Penn Warren: A Way to Love God

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From Sunlight, quatrain 1312:By day I praised youAnd never knew it.By night I stayed with youAnd never knew it.I always thought that I was me – but no,I was youand never knew it!version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva

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A delicate and intriguing quatrain #171 via Sunlight and with Barks' genius injected:I circle your nest tonight,around and around until morningwhen a breath of air says, Now,and the Friend holds up like a gobletsome anonymous skull.version by Coleman Barks

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Today Sunlight has two versions of quatrain 1504:Don't sit with a sad person,Only sit with those who are sweet and kind-hearted.When you've entered a beautiful gardenWhy spend your time with the weeds?Stay with the jasmine and the jonquil.version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shivai told you don't sit aroundwith unhappy folksdon't seek the company of anybut those delicious and sweetwhen you're in

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Sunlight has two versions of quatrain #1133. There is a Zara Houshmand translation but I cannot find my own commentary on this.Burning with longing fire,wanting to sleep with my head on your doorsill,my living is composed only of this tryingto be in your presence.version by Coleman Barksi seek firethat's my longing for youi seek a way outthat's how i'm at your doori'm sick and tiredof being so

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Sunlight has two further versions of quatrain 193, in addition to Houshmand's at friendship among us:O my Beloved,The thought of you keeps me from you.The thought of your face covers your face.When I remember your lips,they fade away.When I think of your kissesthey come no more.version by Jonathan Star and Shahram ShivaInvoking Your namedoes not help me to see You.I'm blinded by the light of Your

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From Sunlight comes two further versions of quatrain 106 in addition to Houshmand's at seek the science.seek only the knowledgethat un-ties the problemsof your lifeseek it soonbeforeyour number is upleave alonewhat seems to bebut is notseek whatseems not to beyet it mighttrans by Nader KhaliliSeek the wisdom that will untie your knotseek the paththat demands your whole being.Leave that which is

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I don't usually bother too much with poems from Sunlight other than the quatrains. However, this one appealed so much that I had to make an exception.Soul And The Old WomanWhat is the soul? Consciousness. The more awareness, the deeper the soul, and whensuch essence overflows, you feel a sacredness around. It'sso simple to tell one whoputs on a robe and pretends to be a dervish from the realthing

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From Sunlight, quatrain 276:The marvelous soundThat comes from the sky – I am That.The sweet fragranceThat comes from the garden – I am That.The great beautyThat comes from the heart and soulUntil I leave . . . Wait!I can't leave – I am That.Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva

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From Sunlight today, an interesting snippet from the Masnawi by the Helminskis:The Universal Soul met a separate souland placed a pearl on her breast.Through such contact the soul, like Mary,became pregnant with a heart-winning messiah.Mathnawi II: 1183-1184Version by Camille and Kabir HelminskiThis comes from Book II, STORY IV. The Falcon and the Owls., where it is rendered thus by Whinfield:

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Sunlight has provided two more versions of quatrain 403. The Houshmand translation was discussed here under that pure gem.We have this way of talking,and we have another.Apart from what we wishand what we fear may happen,we are alive with other life,as clear stonestake form in the mountains.version by Coleman BarksI have a tonguebeside this tongueI have a hell and paradisebeside the ones you

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From Sunlight, two versions of quatrain 44:I pretended to leapto see if I could live there.Someday I must actually arrive there,or nothing will be left to arrive.version by Coleman Barksi imagine marchingto heaven drunklooking for Godif He is to be foundeither my feetmust help mereach my dreamor i'll lose my headas i've lost my hearttrans by Nader Khalili

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From Sunlight, two versions of quatrain 173:I am filled with you.Skin, blood, bone, brain and soul.There's no room for lack of trust, or trust.Nothing in this existence but that existence.version by Coleman Barksin my heartinside and outis all beloved in my bodyblood and veinsis none but belovedhow can there by anyroom for religionor Godlessness in mesince my existenceis overflowingwith

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Python would be Humanism: It's simple, unrestrictive, and all you need to follow it is common sense. Many of the followers claim to feel relieved from all the burden imposed by other languages, and that they have rediscovered the joy of programming. There are some who say that it is a form of pseudo-code.from amz: If programming languages were religions...

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From Sunlight, two versions of quatrain 670:I am hopelessly in love with you, no pointgiving me advice.I have drunk love's poison, no pointtaking any remedy.They want to chain my feet butwhat's the pointwhen it is my heart that's gone mad.translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafifallen in love with youI will take no adviceI have tasted the poisonwhat good can sugar dothey say he is madand

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I used to be an atheist until I realized that I was God.Nice quote from Deepak Chopra, available in this interview: ele:vision - Deepak Chopra - Part2.

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Sunlight offers this version of quatrain 161:A step toward your own heartis a step toward the Beloved.In this house of mirrorsyou see a lot of things –Rub your eyes.Only you exist.version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva

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Zara Houshmand translation is at sadness and silence, with a shell of a commentary from me.Sunlight also offers these two versions:I am happywhen I am sadI am togetherwhen fallen apartlike earthwhen I am silentI have thunderhidden insidetranslation by Nader KhaliliWhen compassion fills my heart,free from all desire,I sit quietly like the earth.My silent cry echoes like thunderthroughout the

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