Although Rumi has been dead for over 700 years, his poetry still resonates across the globe and deep within the mystical Islamic tradition of Sufism. I felt like sharing my love of this beloved poet and wonderful author by quoting a few lines from The Essential Rumi.
Quote from "A Basket of Fresh Bread" -Rumi
"Don't feed both sides of yourself equally. The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions.
Too often we put saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.
Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry."
copyright 2004 by Coleman Barks
"Perhaps the world's greatest spiritual poet-the gold of Rumi pours down through Coleman's words. The words leap off the page and dance!"
-Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
"At the end of our wanderings there is only the soul's yearning to return to God. No one speaks that yearning better than rumi. No one, these days, does Rumi better than Colemen Barks."
-Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now
"Through Coleman Bark's inspiried renderings, we tired, modern people have come not only to love Rumi, but even-a little-to love who and what Rymiu himself loved."
-Jacob Needlemen, author of The Heart of Philosphy
Other titles by Coleman Barks:
The Soul of Rumi
Rumi: The Book of Love
The Drowned Book
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