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Rumi revisited * 3
    #22174253 - 09/01/15 02:33 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

OK, OK! I mocked one of his quotes, but the following one really hit home after my recent emotional struggles with a potential love interest.

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #22174643 - 09/01/15 04:14 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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OrgoneConclusion said:
OK, OK! I mocked one of his quotes, but the following one really hit home after my recent emotional struggles with a potential love interest.

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi




You may be almost ready for The Little Book Of Love. 

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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #22176482 - 09/01/15 11:24 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

I got you 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' for Christmas.


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #22176537 - 09/01/15 11:43 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honourably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.




also...



Learn about your inner self from those who know such things,
but don't repeat verbatim what they say

-- Rumi

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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: DisoRDeR]
    #22176597 - 09/02/15 12:05 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Let me Rumi-nate on these things. :strokebeard:


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #22177104 - 09/02/15 05:47 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

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I got you 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' for Christmas.




"Some good stories but gets old after a while." - Two Stars


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: LunarEclipse] * 1
    #22177776 - 09/02/15 11:21 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.
At times I give myself up to thought purposefully;
but when I choose,
I spring up from those under its sway.
I am like a high-flying bird,
and thought is a gnat:
how should a gnat overpower me?


- Rumi


“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
― Rumi


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Light up the darkness.


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #22179948 - 09/02/15 08:07 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

I laughed at your other post on Rumi, but the quotes here are really good.

Anyone have any books or anything by Rumi that they'd recommend?


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: r72rock]
    #22179984 - 09/02/15 08:12 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

I'm pulling these from The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks.



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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: DisoRDeR]
    #22261444 - 09/19/15 06:29 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

wonderful

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.
-Rumi


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: Kuhl]
    #22262747 - 09/19/15 11:04 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

I'm so glad to have found this thread! I love Rumi. One of my favorites:

Oh Beloved,
take me.
Liberate my soul.
Fill me with your love and
release me from the two worlds.
If I set my heart on anything but you
let fire burn me from inside.

Oh Beloved,
take away what I want.
Take away what I do.
Take away what I need.
Take away everything
that takes me from you.


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: Ms Eva]
    #22262779 - 09/19/15 11:13 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

And...

you are not a drop in the ocean
You are the entire ocean in a drop. :heart:


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #22263847 - 09/20/15 08:53 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

translated poetry is dumb


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: White Beard]
    #22268065 - 09/21/15 04:07 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

translated poetry is dumb

It translates better after a few rumi and coke. :drunk:


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: Diploid]
    #22268074 - 09/21/15 04:31 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Havana Club Blanca Reserva?


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #22268247 - 09/21/15 07:09 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Where am I? This thread doesn't feel right.


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Re: Rumi revisited [Re: White Beard]
    #22274721 - 09/22/15 03:40 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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White Beard said:
translated poetry is dumb




Of course it loses something in the translation, particularly when the languages have significant structural differences.

There is often a necessary choice between a literal, scholarly approach, a thesaurus-stretching effort to fit the translation to the structure and rhythm of the original, and an attempt to capture its deeper meaning. I have two copies of Faust on my shelf that read very differently because of such divergent approaches.

Coleman Barks has this to say about his translations of Rumi and how he got started:

(brace yourself for mystic stuff)

(1:12)


One potentially significant point is that he does not read or speak persian, but rather works from scholarly english translations. Also, he chose to abandon the rhyming structure of the originals in favour of the style of american free verse. Rumi's writing is apparently loaded with puns and rhymes which don't survive translation, so yes, translated poetry is a bit dumb, but if it's beautiful then I'll still take it.

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