Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
The phrase "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing" is a famous line from a poem by the 13th-century Persian poet, Rumi. It suggests a space beyond moral judgments and dualistic thinking, where a deeper connection with oneself and others can be found. Specifically, the full line, "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there," implies a place of unity and understanding that transcends conventional notions of good and bad.
Rumi Poems • The Guest House • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • Sufi Poetry
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Rumi Poems • Not Here • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • Sufi Poetry
There's courage involved if you want
to become truth.
There is a broken- open place in a lover.
Rumi Poetry • I Swear • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • Sufi Poetry
I swear, since seeing Your face,
the whole world is fraud and fantasy
The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf
or blossom. The distracted birds
can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.
Sylvia Plath Poetry • April 18 • Reading this beautiful poem by Sylvia Plath •
Rumi Poetry • I have been tricked • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi •
I have been tricked by flying too close
to what I thought I loved.
Now the candleflame is out, the wine spilled,
and the lovers have withdrawn
Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • I • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore •
I wonder if I know him
In whose speech is my voice,
In whose movement is my being,
Whose skill is in my lines,
Whose melody is in my songs
Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • Friend • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore •
Art thou abroad on this stormy night
on thy journey of love, my friend?
The sky groans like one in despair.
Rumi Poetry • Did I Not Say To You • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi •
Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this
mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?”
Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years
from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal.
Rumi Poetry • Any Soul That Drank the Nectar • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi •
Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • One Day in Spring • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore •
One day in spring, a woman came
In my lonely woods,
In the lovely form of the Beloved.
Came, to give to my songs, melodies,
To give to my dreams, sweetness.
Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • Lover's Gifts II: Come to My Garden Walk • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore •
Come to my garden walk, my love. Pass by the fervid flowers that
press themselves on your sight. Pass them by, stopping at some
chance joy, which like a sudden wonder of sunset illumines, yet
elude.
Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • Innermost One • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore •
He it is, the innermost one,
who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches.
Sylvia Plath Poetry • Bluebeard • Reading this beautiful poem by Sylvia Plath •
I am sending back the key
that let me into bluebeard's study;
because he would make love to me
I am sending back the key;
Rumi Poetry • Out of your love • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi •
Out of your love the fire of youth will rise.
In the chest, visions of the soul will rise.
Pablo Neruda Poetry • Love • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda •
What's wrong with you, with us,
what's happening to us?
Ah our love is a harsh cord
that binds us wounding us
and if we want
to leave our wound,
to separate,
it makes a new knot for us and condemns us
Rumi Poetry • In Love • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi •
In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness,
nothing else exists.
There is no reason for living except for giving one's life.
I said, "First I know you, then I die."
He said, "For the one who knows Me, there is no dying."
Pablo Neruda Poetry • I Remember You As You Were • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda •
I remember you as you were in the last autumn.
You were the grey beret and the still heart.
In your eyes the flames of the twilight fought on.
And the leaves fell in the water of your soul.
Pablo Neruda Poetry • I Hunt For A Sign Of You • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda •
I hunt for a sign of you in all the others,
In the rapid undulant river of women,
Braids, shyly sinking eyes,
Light step that slices, sailing through the foam.
Rumi Poetry • Birdsong • Reading this beautiful poem by Jalaluddin Rumi •
Birdsong brings relief
to my longing
I'm just as ecstatic as they are,
but with nothing to say!
Please universal soul, practice
some song or something through me!