"Birds make great sky-circles
of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall, and falling,
they are given wings."

-Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)

Monday, September 26, 2011

A Rumi night


To dance is not to jump to your feet at once
and rise painlessly in the air like dust.
To rise above both worlds
is to dance in the blood of your pain
and give up your life.

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