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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.Jalaluddin Rumi
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When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.Jalaluddin 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.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.Jalaluddin Rumi
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.Jalaluddin Rumi
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I know you're tired but come, this is the way.Jalaluddin Rumi
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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.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.Jalaluddin Rumi
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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not oneJalaluddin Rumi
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!Jalaluddin Rumi
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Like ThisIf anyone asks youhow the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wantingwill look, lift your faceand say, Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulnessof the nightsky, climb up on the roofand dance and say, Like this. If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is, or what "God’s fragrance" means, lean your head toward him or her. Keep your face there close. Like this. When someone quotes the old poetic imageabout clouds gradually uncovering the moon, slowly loosen knot by knot the stringsof your robe. Like this. If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead, don’t try to explain the miracle. Kiss me on the lips. Like this. Like this. When someone asks what it meansto "die for love, " pointhere. If someone asks how tall I am, frownand measure with your fingers the spacebetween the creases on your forehead. This tall. The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns. When someone doesn’t believe that, walk back into my house. Like this. When lovers moan, they’re telling our story. Like this. I am a sky where spirits live. Stare into this deepening blue, while the breeze says a secret. Like this. When someone asks what there is to do, light the candle in his hand. Like this. How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?Huuuuu.How did Jacob’s sight return? Huuuu. A little wind cleans the eyes. Like this. When Shams comes back from Tabriz, he’ll put just his head around the edgeof the door to surprise us Like this. .Jalaluddin Rumi
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Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I choose to love you in silence… For in silence I find no rejection, I choose to love you in loneliness… For in loneliness no one owns you but me, I choose to adore you from a distance… For distance will shield me from pain, I choose to kiss you in the wind… For the wind is gentler than my lips, I choose to hold you in my dreams… For in my dreams, you have no end.Jalaluddin Rumi
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.Jalaluddin Rumi
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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.Jalaluddin Rumi
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In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.Jalaluddin Rumi
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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.Jalaluddin Rumi
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You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.Jalaluddin Rumi
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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.Jalaluddin Rumi
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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.Jalaluddin Rumi
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?Jalaluddin Rumi
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?Jalaluddin Rumi
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.Jalaluddin Rumi
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?Jalaluddin Rumi
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Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?Jalaluddin Rumi
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Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.Jalaluddin Rumi
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.Jalaluddin Rumi
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An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oÆ’ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.Jalaluddin Rumi
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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.Jalaluddin Rumi
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The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Give your weakness to one who helps.Jalaluddin Rumi
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You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dustyou have created a personal image, and have forgottenabout the essence of your true originJalaluddin Rumi
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You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.Jalaluddin Rumi
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The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.Jalaluddin Rumi
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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.Jalaluddin Rumi
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You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.Jalaluddin Rumi
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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.Jalaluddin Rumi
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You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?Jalaluddin Rumi
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Woman is the light of God.Jalaluddin Rumi
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The way you make love is the way God will be with you.Jalaluddin Rumi
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SUDDEN RESURRECTION! Endless mercy! Blazing fire in the thickets of thought! Today you came laughing Unlocking dungeons Came to the meek Like god’s grace and bounty You are the antechamber to the sun You are the hope’s prerequisite You are sought Seeker Terminus PrincipiaYou pulse in every chest adorn every idea then permit their realization Spirit- spring, irreplaceable Delight of action and cognition. All the rest is pretext, fraud- the former, illness; the latter, cure We’re jaundiced by that fraud Heart-set to slay an innocent Drunk, now on angel eyes Now on plain bread and soup Taste this intoxication, drop your ratiocination Savor these delectable Drop the debatables A little bread and greens Should not entail so much trouble* Ghazal 1 .Jalaluddin Rumi
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.Jalaluddin Rumi
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This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor... Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.Jalaluddin Rumi
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.Jalaluddin Rumi
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A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a fluteJalaluddin Rumi
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Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish.Jalaluddin Rumi
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When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you,. .. When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, N E V E R GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!Jalaluddin Rumi
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.Jalaluddin Rumi
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?Jalaluddin Rumi
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There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.Jalaluddin Rumi
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If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist —Do not go in the direction of darkness —I tell you: suns exist.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?Jalaluddin Rumi
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The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!Jalaluddin Rumi
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Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.Jalaluddin Rumi
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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.Jalaluddin Rumi
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You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.Jalaluddin Rumi
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My friend, you thought you lost Him;that all your life you've been separated from Him.Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.Jalaluddin Rumi
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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.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.Jalaluddin Rumi
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And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.Jalaluddin Rumi
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There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved.And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover replied, 'It is I.''Go hence, ' returned the voice;'there is no room within for thee and me.' Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded, ' Who is there?' He answered, 'It is thou.'' Enter, ' said the voice, 'for I am within.Jalaluddin Rumi
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A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.Jalaluddin Rumi
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It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.Jalaluddin 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.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Loveis exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burntby the fire of Love.You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religionis all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Peygamber dedi: 'Kadın akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serkeş davranır.' İncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık vasfıdır. Öfke ve şehvet, hayvanlık vasfıdır. O, Hakk'ın ışığıdır; sevgili değil. O, sanki yaratıcıdır; yaratılmış değildir.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say, ‘ You and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.’ You mumble back things you thought ofwhen you were drunk.Jalaluddin Rumi
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My heart is so smallit's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it?" Look, " He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.Jalaluddin Rumi
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.Jalaluddin Rumi
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The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.Jalaluddin Rumi
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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beautyand the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show themwhat it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugaras we laugh together, you and I.In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Beauty surrounds us.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Looking for Your FaceFrom the beginning of my life I have been looking for your facebut today I have seen it Today I have seenthe charm, the beauty, the unfathomable graceof the facethat I was looking for Today I have found youand those who laughedand scorned me yesterdayare sorry that they were not lookingas I did I am bewildered by the magnificenceof your beautyand wish to see youwith a hundred eyes My heart has burned with passionand has searched foreverfor this wondrous beautythat I now behold I am ashamedto call this love humanand afraid of Godto call it divine Your fragrant breathlike the morning breezehas come to the stillness of the garden You have breathed new life into me I have become your sunshineand also your shadow My soul is screaming in ecstasy Every fiber of my beingis in love with you Your effulgencehas lit a fire in my heartand you have made radiantfor methe earth and sky My arrow of lovehas arrived at the target I am in the house of mercyand my heartis a place of prayer .Jalaluddin Rumi
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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.Jalaluddin Rumi
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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wantedJalaluddin Rumi