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I know you're tired but come, this is the way.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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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.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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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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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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Woman is the light of God.Jalaluddin Rumi
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You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.Curtis Tyrone Jones
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If you want special illumination, look upon the human face: See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.Idries Shah
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Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)Idries Shah
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Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.Shah Asad Rizvi
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I am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.Curtis Tyrone Jones
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The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.Curtis Tyrone Jones
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Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.Shah Asad Rizvi
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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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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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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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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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How can you be a lover of loveand not be a lover of God?It is impossible.Kamand Kojouri
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The less you know, the more you will be known The less you want, the more you will have The less you are, the more you will beVivian Amis
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‪You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.‬Curtis Tyrone Jones
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Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others.Abhijit Naskar
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You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.Curtis Tyrone Jones
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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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You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.Kamand Kojouri
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Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!Kamand Kojouri
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Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,Shah Asad Rizvi
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You broughtme your darkness& I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.Curtis Tyrone Jones
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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 I was a child, I saw God, I saw angels; I watched the mysteries of higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.....Shams Of Tabriz
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Did I Not Say To YouDid I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?” Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal. Did I not say to you, “Be not content with worldly forms, for I am the fashioner of the tabernacle of your contentment?” Did I not say to you, “I am the sea and you are a single fish; go not to dry land, for I am your crystal sea?” Did I not say to you, “ Go not like birds to the snare; come, for I am the power of flight and your wings and feet?” Did I not say to you, “ They will waylay you and make you cold, for I am the fire and warmth and heat of your desire?” Did I not say to you, “ They will implant in you ugly qualities so that you will forget that I am the source of purity to you?” Did I not say to you, “Do not say from what direction the ser- vant’s affairs come into order?” I am the Creator without directions. If you are the lamp of the heart, know where the road is to the house; and if you are godlike of attribute, know that I am your Maser.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great love affair. We feel it drawing ever closer. It is the greatest of them all. It cannot fail. It is all consuming. It is incomparable. It is the love affair with our own true nature and the source from which it comes. The desire is in all of us but, more often than not, it is ignored for other interests. We wrestle with each interest, trying to make it work, growing with each adventure until the light has grown bright enough for us to reach for it.Donna Goddard
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If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.Shah Asad Rizvi
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And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you I could set the night a glow. So we needed one another–the dark and the light. Your fear. My courage. Connected, but separated. Different, but the same. A synergy that made no sense, but every bit of sense. We were neither a beginning, nor an end. We were somewhere in between our madness at sunset and the reality we awakened to with each sunrise. We were the ghosts of timing and fate. We were neither fantasy, nor reality--- we were a purpose somewhere in between.Shannon L. Alder
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Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.Shah Asad Rizvi
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One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Dance is the ritual of immortality.Shah Asad Rizvi
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If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.Shah Asad Rizvi
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DANCE — Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.Shah Asad Rizvi
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She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.Shah Asad Rizvi
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O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.Shah Asad Rizvi
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O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.Shah Asad Rizvi
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If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.Shah Asad Rizvi
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When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment.Shah Asad Rizvi
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Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of danceShah Asad Rizvi
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Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.Jalaluddin Rumi
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.Debasish Mridha
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Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.~ RumiJody West
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Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is containedIdries Shah
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Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.Idries Shah
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Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.Idries Shah
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The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.Holly Lynn Payne
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Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.Holly Lynn Payne
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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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I keepholding upthe mirror of the sun, so you can see the stunningreflections of everythingyou’re becom-ing.Curtis Tyrone Jones
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It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peaceDonna Goddard
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Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.Holly Lynn Payne
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...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.Holly Lynn Payne
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....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.Holly Lynn Payne
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...purification was the point of such pain.Holly Lynn Payne
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If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.Holly Lynn Payne
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The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.Holly Lynn Payne
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...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.Holly Lynn Payne
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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.Jalaluddin Rumi
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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.Aberjhani
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Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~RumiMaryam Mafi
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Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.Idries Shah
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....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.Holly Lynn Payne
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We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who'd just smoked a cigarette et cetra. Another list. The things we loved: strong coffee, Matisse, Rumi, summer rain, bathing together, Tom Hanks, rice pancakes, Cafe Sunrise, black-and-white photographs, the first quiet moments after you wake up in the morning.Sachin Kundalkar
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You may think just a window But you overtook my soul. You are not just a whisper, You are louder than my soul. (from poem Chimera)Deepa Bajaj
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Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!Jalaluddin Rumi
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We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.Idries Shah
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The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.Idries Shah
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Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.Idries Shah
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The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.Idries Shah
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Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.Jalaluddin Rumi
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Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.Holly Lynn Payne
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The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.Jalaluddin Rumi
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If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.Jalaluddin Rumi
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I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.Holly Lynn Payne
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It is necessary to note, " says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).Idries Shah
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Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working togetherIdries Shah
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Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.Idries Shah
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When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.Idries Shah