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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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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 grass
the world is too full to talk about.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
Rumi,The Illuminated Rumi
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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What you seek is seeking you.
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Dont grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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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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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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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.
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Rumi,Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
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Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.
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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.
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Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi,The Essential Rumi
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I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more
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My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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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.
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silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.  They're in each other all along.
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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?
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
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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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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.  Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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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?
Rumi,The Essential 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.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
Rumi,Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of 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.
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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.
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.
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People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,

you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.
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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.
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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah...it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
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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.
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But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
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Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.
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I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
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Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.
Rumi,The Essential Rumi
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.
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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can't cope.

And when you take the lead,
I become your footstep.
Your absence leaves a void.
Without you, I can't cope.

You have disturbed my sleep,
You have wrecked my image.
You have set me apart.
Without you, I can't cope.
Rumi,Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi
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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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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.
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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 blind
when it only wants to see why.

A lover is always accused of something.
But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed.
Rumi,Night and Sleep
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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.
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You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!
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Beauty surrounds us.
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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,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
Rumi,The Essential Rumi
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Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
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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!
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Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.
Rumi,The Essential Rumi
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The cure for pain is in the pain.
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Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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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.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Rumi,The Essential Rumi
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Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
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On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a
day.
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Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
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Inside you theres an artist you dont know about... say yes quickly, if you know, if youve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
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Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
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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.
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Here is a relationship booster
that is guaranteed to
work:

Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid
make your eyes light up as if you
just heard something
brilliant.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window.
Rumi,A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. 
Rumi,The Essential Rumi
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They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?
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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
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You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
Rumi,The Essential Rumi
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
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Within tears, find hidden laughter
Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. 
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Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.
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