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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“You are sitting here with us,
but you are also out walking in a field at dawn.

You are yourself the animal we hunt
when you come with us on the hunt.

You are in your body
like a plant is solid in the ground,
yet you are wind.

You are the diver's clothes
lying empty on the beach.
You are the fish.

In the ocean are many bright strands
and many dark strands like veins that are seen
when a wing is lifted up.

Your hidden self is blood in those,
those veins that are lute strings
that make ocean music,
not the sad edge of surf,
but the sound of no shore.”
Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.

Drumsound rises on the air,
its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says,
"I know you're tired,
but come. This is the way."

Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone?

Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.”
Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“We are the night ocean filled
with glints of light. We are the space
between the fish and the moon,
while we sit here together.”
Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.”
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Arnold Lobel
“Blah, said Toad.”
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