Books Quote by Coleman Barks
“I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.””
“I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.””
![“.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to act from the Divine Center of Silence and allow the glory of the Presence to soak our every movement.” quote by Andrew Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/977/andrew-harvey-17878_aspect_every-single-corner-and-aspect-of-our-li_865334.jpg)
![“[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral...” quote by Coleman Barks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a59/coleman-barks-24371_cathedrals_rumi-is-trying-to-get-us-to-feel-the-vas_113313.jpg)
![“I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.” quote by Coleman Barks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f87/coleman-barks-24371_consciousness_i-had-been-a-kind-of-natural-mystic-my-w_639636.jpg)
