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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
Rumi
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Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
Rumi
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Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
Rumi
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Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
Rumi
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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
Rumi
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Rumi
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Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
Rumi
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
Rumi
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Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
Rumi
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Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.
Rumi
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You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?
Rumi
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When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.
Rumi
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond
Rumi
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing 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.
Rumi
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My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.
Rumi
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Rumi
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
Rumi
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Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love.
Rumi
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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
Rumi
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Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world.
Rumi
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Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.
Rumi
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I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference
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First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.
Rumi
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I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
Rumi
