🎭 Culture Sep 4, 2026 · Maria Popova

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy

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The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
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“You’ll long for me when I’m gone… You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave… Kiss my face instead!”

“What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious,” Lisel Mueller wrote in her short, stunning poem about what gives meaning to our mortal lives.
To become precious — that is the work of love, the task of love, the great reward of love. The recompense of death. The human miracle that makes the transience of life not only bearable but beautiful.
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