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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.
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I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
With angels blest; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind e'er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, To Him we shall return.
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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.
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Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died,
sun and cloud obey.
If you wish to shine like day,
burn up the night of self-existence.
Dissolve in the Being who is everything.
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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.
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If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.
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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits,
have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don't claim them. Feel the artistry
moving through, and be silent.
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Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
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Do not believe in an absurdity
no matter who says it.
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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.
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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah [...] it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
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Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
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To Love is to reach God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to reach God.
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When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.
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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
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All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
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We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen,
For we are the companions of Religions Messenger.
Ee have a way from the house to the garden,
we are the neighbor of the cypress and jasmine.
Every day we come to the garden
and see a hundred blossoms.
In order to scatter them among the lovers,
we will our robes to overflowing. Behold our words!
They are the fragrance of those roses -
we are the rosebush of certainty's rose garden.
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You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.
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Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
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To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."
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Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.
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The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.
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O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.
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Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.
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Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.
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A soul which is not clothed
with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence.
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Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested... That's where the Light enters you.
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Rumi
Born:
September 30, 1207
Died:
December 17, 1273
(aged 66)
Bio:
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, MawlānāMawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
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Fihi Ma Fihi
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