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Quatrain 62 of the Rubaiyat of Rumi [w/ Audio]

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If you desire the self, get out of the self.
   Leave the shallow stream behind
   And flow into the river deep and wide.
 Don't be an ox pulling the wheel of the plow,
   Turn with the stars that wheel above you.

As translated in: Helminski, Kabir (ed.). 2018. The Pocket Rumi. Boulder, CO: Shambhala South Asia Editions. p. 4; translators: Kabir Helminski, Camille Helminski, and Lida Saedian

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing” by Rumi [w/ Audio]

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
   there is a field. I'll meet you there.
 When the soul lies down in that grass,
   the world is too full to talk about.
 Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
   doesn't make any sense.

NOTE: Translation from Persian by Coleman Barks & John Moyne in The Essential Rumi published by Harper Collins.

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