Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul: Rumi Call Us to Life

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Thursday, September 7, 2006

Rumi Call Us to Life

How long will you move backward? Come forward; Do not stray in unbelief, Come dancing to religion. Look, the elixer is hidden in the poison, Come to the poison and come, Return to the root of the root of your own self. You may think that you are earthly beings But you have been kneaded from the substance of certaintly. You are the guardians of God's Light, So come, return to the root of the root of your own self. Once you have tied yourself to selflessness, You will be delivered from selfhood... Sign in to see full entry.

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