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There's courage involved if you wantto become truth. There is a broken- open place in a lover. Where are those qualities of bravery and sharp compassion in this group? What's theuse of old and frozen thought? I want a howling hurt. This is not a treasurywhere gold is stored; this is for copper.
We alchemists look for talent thatcan heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do.
Halfhearted holding back,well-enough getting by? Not here.
Excerpt rom the translations of Rumi by Coleman Barks.
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi my
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