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Didn't I tell you
not to be satisfied with the veil of this world?
I am the master illusionist,
it is me, who is the welcoming banner at the gate of your contentment.
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Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
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The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.
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Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.
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Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.
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When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
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I always thought that
I was me — but no,
I was you
and never knew it.
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The result of my life is not more than three words:
I was raw, I became ripe, I burnt—
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This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
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Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.
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The place that Solomon made to worship in,
called the Far Mosque, is not built of earth
and water and stone, but of intention and wisdom
and mystical conversation and compassionate action.
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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When you see anyone complaining
of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper,
know that the complainant is bad-tempered,
forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person,
because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing
towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.
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You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.
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Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.
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There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!
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This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.
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I don't know where I am.
At times I plunge
to the bottom of the sea,
at times, rise up
like the Sun. At times, the universe is pregnant by me,
at times I give birth to it.
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The lower self does not want anyone to receive anything from anybody else, and if it is aware of something receiving a special boon, it seeks to destroy it.
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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.
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The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.
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What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir
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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