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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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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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All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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Lovers think they are looking for each other,
but there is only one search: wandering
This world is wandering that, both inside one
transparent sky. In here
there is no dogma and no heresy.
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I can't stop pointing
to the beauty. Every moment and place says,
"Put this design in your carpet!"
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From Hallaj, I learned to hunt lions, but I became something hungrier than a lion.
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I go into the Muslim mosque and the Jewish synagogue and the Christian church and I see one altar.
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Spring is Christ,
Raising martyred plants from their shrouds.
Their mouths open in gratitude, wanting to be kissed.
The glow of the rose and the tulip means a lamp is inside.
A leaf trembles. I tremble in the wind-beauty like silk from Turkestan.
The censer fans into flame. This wind is the Holy Spirit.
The trees are Mary.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about
language, ideas, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.
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The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did
about the future. Forget the future.
I'd worship someone who could do that.
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Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.
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Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.
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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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This heart sanctuary does
exist, but it can't be described. Why try! Solomon goes there every morning and gives guidance
with words, with musical harmonies, and in actions,
which are the deepest teaching. A prince is just
a conceit until he does something with generosity.
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We talk about this and that. There's no rest except on these branching moments.
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This dance is the joy of existence. I am filled with you.
Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul.
There's no room for lack of trust, or trust.
Nothing in this existence but that existence.
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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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Learn from Ali how to fight
without your ego participating.
God's lion did nothing
that didn't originate
from his deep center.
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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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The cure for pain is in the pain.
Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both,
you don't belong with us.
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Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence. Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.
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There is a community of the spirit
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street,
and being the noise.
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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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Gamble everything for love,
if you are a true human being.
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I said…how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger Ascham
Rumi
Born:
September 30, 1207
Died:
December 17, 1273
(aged 66)
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