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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
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With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.
This gathering is more like a drunken party,
full of tricksters, fools,
mad men and mad women.
This is a gathering of Lovers.
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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
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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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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
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Every object and being in the universe is
a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,
a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained
by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth
more shining, as though covered in satin.
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Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.
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From Hallaj, I learned to hunt lions, but I became something hungrier than a lion.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
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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