[Sunlight] Free in every way -- Quatrain 116

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Today, Sunlight offers three interpretations of Quatrain 116:

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Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: He's free.

--Version by Coleman Barks
"Open Secret"
Threshold Books, 1984

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happy is the one
who doesn't need to try
getting wealthy
or remaining poor
free from people
and worldly worries
a stranger to himself
free in every way

--Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
Cal-Earth Press, 2001

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Peaceful
is the one
who's not concerned
with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame
he is free from sorrow
from the world and
mostly from
himself.

--Translation by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999

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[Sunlight] Free in every way -- Quatrain 116