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> [The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/the-mystics-always-say-that-the-experience-they-re-talking-about-is/)

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## More by Coleman Barks

> [I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/i-think-we-all-have-a-core-that-s-ecstatic-that-knows-and-that-looks/)

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> [The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/the-mystics-always-say-that-the-experience-they-re-talking-about-is/)

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> [ \[Rumi\] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral... ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/rumi-is-trying-to-get-us-to-feel-the-vastness-of-our-true-identity/)

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> [“ In the front yard lives the oldest thing around, a white oak That I used to say is my love for the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/in-the-front-yard-lives-the-oldest-thing-around-a-white-oak-that-i/)

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> [“…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union, to fiercely search for and try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/the-work-of-the-muslim-sufi-dervish-community-was-to-open-the-heart/)

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> [Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/just-being-sentient-and-in-a-body-with-the-sun-coming-up-is-a-state/)

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> [It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/it-s-such-a-foolish-thing-to-argue-about-names-when-what-we-re-doing/)

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> [I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/i-had-been-a-kind-of-natural-mystic-my-whole-life-growing-up-there-in/)

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> [If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/if-you-teach-three-university-courses-a-day-you-need-something-to/)

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> [If you think there's an important difference between being a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Muslim or a Buddhist, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/if-you-think-there-s-an-important-difference-between-being-a/)

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> [What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/what-i-deeply-want-is-for-rumi-to-become-vitally-present-for-readers/)

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> [Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/longing-becomes-more-poignant-if-in-the-distance-you-can-t-tell/)

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> [I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/i-think-my-life-is-tremendously-interesting-and-surely-other-people/)

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> [It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/it-s-a-beautiful-lucid-dream-that-has-language-that-i-can-fiddle-with/)

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> [Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coleman-barks/ramana-maharshi-and-rumi-would-agree-the-joy-of-being-human-is-in/)

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