You are the truth
from foot to brow. Now.
What else would you like to know?

 

Rumi, tr. Coleman Barks, Birdsong, p. 39

 

 

Listen to presences inside poems.
Let them take you where they will.

Follow those private hints
and never leave the premesis.

 

Rumi, tr. Coleman Barks, Unseen Rain, p. 37

 

 

When we have totally surrendered
to that beauty, we will become
a mighty kindness.

 

Rumi, tr. Coleman Barks, Soul of Rumi, p.384