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come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
Rumi
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
Rumi
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Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.
Rumi
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You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!
Rumi
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There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. and the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
Rumi
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Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.
Rumi
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My spirit saw how dull and down I was and came and sat laughing on my bed. Holding my brow, "Sweetheart, I can't bear to see you like this!
Rumi
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Rumi
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In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.
Rumi
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
Rumi
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
Rumi
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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
Rumi
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
Rumi
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Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Rumi
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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
Rumi
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
Rumi
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The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
Rumi
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My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.
Rumi
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Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
Rumi
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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
Rumi
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Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
Rumi
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
Rumi
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
Rumi
