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What a fortune it is to have friends to send you arrows that lodge in your heart! I got a gift a while back which stayed in its wrapper until just recently, so that arrow had been shot and sort of disappeared into the air. I knew he had shot it. It landed and stayed quiet in repose, not waiting for me at all. When I opened it, suddenly it lept out, and with the full force of its sending, struck my heart!
Poems by Rumi, the 13th century Persian poet, in wonderful translations and readings by Coleman Barks, a North Carolinian I have met once or twice, brought together by translation and the adventure of removing the strangeness from strangers. Oh, how wonderful!
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,
they’re in each other all along.
From Essential Rumi
by Coleman Barks
Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
From Thief of Sleep
by Shahram Shiva
And more of Coleman’s work. You can get audio and video for money you will never think twice about….
And here you can get audio in iTunes and other mp3 formats.
