| Frederic Brussat, Mary Ann Brussat - 1998 - 612 pages
...carry messages of ineffable joy." In the next poem, birds demonstrate the spiritual practice of grace. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How...learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings. — JELALUDDIN RUMI in The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A J. Arberry,... | |
| Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Shabistarī - 2002 - 118 pages
...Beyond Faith and Infidelity, p. 83. 3. SH Nasr, Sufi Essays (London: Allen and Unwin, 1972), p. 99. 4. "The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation." Translation from Coleman Barks and Michael Green, The Illuminated Prayer (New York: Ballantine, 2000),... | |
| Anna Voigt, Nevill Drury - 2003 - 164 pages
...automatically liberates other-. MARIANNE WILLIAMSPOKEN BY NELSON MANDELA IK HIS W4 IX AUGURAL ADDRESS Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How...learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings. RUM i BEING FREE We all cherish our freedom, but what does it really mean to be free? If we think that... | |
| T. Byram Karasu - 2003 - 256 pages
...attachment to and love of others. THERE IS GOOD ONLY BECAUSE THERE IS BAD Birds mal^e great sl(y -circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings. — Jalalu'1-Din Rumi That evening, less than ten hours after breaking up with her, Joe called Lisa... | |
| Brandon Bays - 2010 - 240 pages
...that is available to you in each and every moment. 7. LOVE . . . and the greatest of these is love. The way of love is not a subtle argument The door there is devastation Birds make great sky circles of their freedom How do they do it? They fall And falling They are given wings. — RUMI... | |
| John Corrigan - 2008 - 535 pages
...two identities.8 self in the crucible that is love, or annihilation. As the Sufi poet Rumi puts it, "the way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation."9 Allah is reported in a well-known hadith as saying "I am with those whose hearts are... | |
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