“… Art gives a teasing taste of surrender without the full experience. Beautiful poetry can keep one on the verge of the oceanic annihilation in God. Rumi says, we’ve been walking in the surf holding our robes up, when we should be diving naked under, and deeper under.”
That is part of Coleman Barks’ contextual prose for the chapter titled : Art as Flirtation with Surrender … indeed in this poem (from that chapter) Rumi gives us a taste of this “surrender” – deeper and deeper … as “practiced” by the Greeks, who are like Sufis, in this regard! … here’s a taste:
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The Greek art is the Sufi way.
They don’t study books of philosophical thought.
They make their loving clearer and clearer.
No wantings, no anger. In that purity
they receive and reflect the images of every moment,
from here, from the stars, from the void.
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Enjoy … the full poem by clicking …
