Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul for Sunday, November 5, 2006

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Sunday, November 5, 2006

Silence - Rumi

Stop talking! What a shame you have no familiarity with inner silence! Polish your heart for a day or two: make that mirror your book of contemplation. -Mathnawi [VI, 1286-1287] From "Jewels of Remembrance," by Rumi, selected and translated by Camille and Kabir Helminski, © 1996. By arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, www.shambhala.com My Poem Words, Words, Words, And yet more words. When will you let them go? Surrender to the Silence! Shamsuddin says: Shut up and join me... Sign in to see full entry.

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