Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul: Rumi: A Star without a name

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Monday, September 11, 2006

Rumi: A Star without a name

A Star Without a Name When a baby is taken from the wet nurse, it easily forgets her and starts eating solid food. Seeds feed awhile on ground, then lift up into the sun. So you should taste the filtered light and work your way toward wisdom with no personal covering. That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights. - Rumi (Mathnawi III, 1284-1288) "Say I am You" Coleman Barks Maypop, 1994 Stop Thinking You Are Someone Stop thinking you... Sign in to see full entry.

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