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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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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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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 melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.Jalaluddin 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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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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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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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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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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…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union, to fiercely search for and try to say the truth, and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being in human incarnation.Coleman Barks
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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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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Notice how each particle moves. Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey. Notice how each wants a different food. Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward the ocean. Look at the chefs preparing special plates for everyone, according to what they need. Look at this cup that can hold the ocean. Look at those who see the face. Look through Shams’ eyes into the Water that is entirely jewels.Jalaluddin Rumi
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You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission. Mevlana Jalal ad- Din RUMI.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!Jalaluddin Rumi