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O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
Rumi
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Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.
Rumi
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
Rumi
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Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
Rumi
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
Rumi
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Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.
Rumi
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
Rumi
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This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
Rumi
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
Rumi
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There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
Rumi
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Choose to love the one who does not die.
Rumi
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
Rumi
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There's a path from me to you I'm constantly looking for, so I try to keep clear and still as water does with the moon.
Rumi
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If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?
Rumi
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On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You’ve written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing.
Rumi
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The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
Rumi
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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
Rumi
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Heartsick, heartbroken – To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular That with it we probe the divine.
Rumi
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You are my shams.
Rumi
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Beauty surrounds us.
Rumi
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
Rumi
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Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
Rumi
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There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.
Rumi
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Try something different. Surrender.
Rumi
