Coleman Barks Quotes

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 is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.

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• Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Present
  • Identity

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Work
  • Control

• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  

  Origen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Space
  • Physics

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Space
  • Scientist
  • Go

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Father
  • Space

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Want
  • Present
  • Welcome

• There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Space
  • Design
  • Buildings

• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Power
  • Present

• But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue...Shake one, and it awakens; then applyIts polished lips to your attentive ear,And it remembers its august abodes,And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ocean
  • August

• There are three fountains In the mountain of roses, There is a Caer of defence Under the ocean’s wave. Illusive greeter, What is the porter’s name?

  

  Taliesin
  • Ocean
  • Mountain

• The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Understanding

• Before blogging, I was living in the Middle Ages. Now my feelings for time and space are entirely different.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Time
  • Different
  • Space

• Lately I've been lookin' through the windows of my soulAnd I can see there's not much left to holdJust an empty space surrounded by the pieces ofA badly broken heart that's forgotten how to love.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Broken

• People see space as a place where you go and cooperate.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • People
  • Space

• If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Stop
  • Space
  • Cancer

• Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

  

  Jim Crace
  • House
  • Space

• Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Up
  • Home
  • Food

• The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

  

  Elisabeth Harnois
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Motivated

• 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 is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.

  

  Coleman Barks
  • Space
  • Present
  • Ocean