Quietness

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Quietness by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now. You are covered with the thick cloud. Slide out the side. Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you have died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. From Rumi: The Big Red Book – The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love & Friendship, p. 108-109. The collected translations by Coleman Barks

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A poem by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

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Quietness

by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

Inside this new love, die.Your way begins on the other side.

Become the sky.Take an axe to the prison wall.

Escape.Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.

Do it now.You are covered with the thick cloud.

Slide out the side. Die,and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign

that you have died.Your old life was a frantic running

from silence.

The speechless full mooncomes out now.

From Rumi: The Big Red Book – The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love & Friendship, p. 108-109.The collected translations by Coleman Barks