Rumi: You are cold, but you expect kindness
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Photo: Shahnamah: Isfandiyar's Fifth Exploit where he kills the simurgh; 1616, possibly from Shiraz.
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You are cold, but you expect kindness. What you do comes back in the same form. God is compassionate, but if you plant barley, don’t expect to harvest wheat.
(Rumi)
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Recommended Reading:
'Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi'
'Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi'
by John Moyne (Translator), Coleman Barks (Translator)
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Description:
Rumi's short poems have many tones and effects: some of them are quick, joyful, and whimsical; some are finely faceted abstract statements; some probe the inward space of patience and longing. Moyne and Barks translated these poems using a free-verse style, connecting these poems with great American spiritual poets such as Walt Whitman and Gary Snyder.
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