"I am God's Lion, not the lion of passion.... I have no longing except for the One. When a wind of personal reaction comes, I do not go along with it. There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been."
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"Ali in Battle" in Ch. 20: In Baghdad dreaming of Cairo
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Coleman Barks
Coleman Barks (April 23, 1937 – February 23, 2026) was an American poet and former literature faculty member at the University of Georgia. Although he neither spoke nor read Persian, he was a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations.
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