Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Be With Those Who Help Your Being Comments

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Be with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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Rose Marie Juan-austin 27 March 2025

A poem of great wisdom! Superb imagery!

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Sharon Gallant 06 December 2022

Good point I want my Leafs to be green and flourish

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Sylvia Frances Chan 11 November 2021

I am enamored reading one of the famous poems of The Great Rumi, I adore and much more 5 Stars fullest on TOP

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Mamunur Rahman Kayes 08 November 2019

wow nice poem. I love the mab too much

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Britte Ninad 23 June 2019

Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots and makes them green. Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow? /// love for you O great

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Mahtab Bangalee 28 May 2018

O love come, come alone come, come and do not moan be with one one and one

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Darshini.m 10 January 2018

super ya

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Upendra Upm 27 June 2017

Robert Frost said, world will be destroyed not by fire, but by ice., ice of insouciance. So let us remain standing and welcome, cajole our people to be in perpetual readiness to work.

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Signed Lonnie 03 April 2016

Lovely poem. Serves for reevaluation.

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Susan Williams 03 April 2016

Be with those who help your being. I could have used hearing those words at different stages of my life. I suspect we all could have. But had we heard them, would we have heeded them? When I was young, I didn't have the wisdom to employ this saying into my life. I find that now that I am older, I still lack wisdom but this time the wisdom to recognize the difference between those who only appear to help your being and those who would really help your being.

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Kim Barney 03 April 2016

Good advice written centuries ago that still holds true today. No rhyme, but that's what happens with translations.

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Barry Middleton 03 April 2016

Don't hang with negative people, people that hold you back. Instead surround yourself with relationships that help you to become a better person. Rumi was a smart man.

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Edward Kofi Louis 03 April 2016

Changes! Leaves get yellow. Thanks for sharing.

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Neran Sati 13 October 2015

To be fruitfull in life, be devoted. That path also requires a proper company. So, beware! - says Rumi here.

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Charity Nduhiu 12 October 2015

Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow? you should be with those who help your being. Nice write

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Chinedu Dike 19 April 2015

Beautifully articulated piece of poetry written with insight. Thanks for sharing.

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Very interesting poem for inner awareness and leading a perfect life harmonious to all.

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* Sunprincess * 09 March 2014

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths. Not these visible forms, your work is deeper. ....a kind word can go along ways....a kind deed even farther..

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Kay Staley 08 February 2014

Is it selfish to follow this advice and only grace your presence to those who help you? Maybe instead we should try to help others find their being and find our own that way. Maybe instead of taking we should only give. I regret that this poem doesn't have a semblance of a rhyme, but the words are clear and thought provoking.

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