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01c. 1240 AD

Woman is the light of God.

Jalaluddin Rumi / quote

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02c. 1240 AD

The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Jalaluddin Rumi / quote

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03c. 1240 AD

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 bountyYou are the antechamber to the sunYou are the hope’s prerequisite You are sought Seeker Terminus PrincipiaYou pulse in every chest adorn every idea then permit their realizationSpirit- spring, irreplaceableDelight of action and cognition.All the rest is pretext, fraud- the former, illness; the latter, cureWe’re jaundiced by that fraudHeart-set to slay an innocentDrunk, now on angel eyesNow on plain bread and soupTaste this intoxication, drop your ratiocination Savor these delectable Drop the debatablesA little bread and greensShould not entail so much trouble*Ghazal 1

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04c. 1240 AD

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Jalaluddin Rumi / quote

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05c. 1240 AD

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

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06c. 1240 AD

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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07c. 1240 AD

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

Jalaluddin Rumi / quote

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08c. 1240 AD

Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

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09c. 1240 AD

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.

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10c. 1240 AD

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Jalaluddin Rumi / quote

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11c. 1240 AD

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 flute

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12c. 1240 AD

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.

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13c. 1240 AD

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!

Jalaluddin Rumi / quote

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14c. 1240 AD

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Jalaluddin Rumi / quote

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15c. 1240 AD

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.

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16c. 1240 AD

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 / quote

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17c. 1240 AD

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 / quote

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18c. 1240 AD

If you are seeking, seek us with joyFor we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not give your heart to anything elseBut 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.

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19c. 1240 AD

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 / quote

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20c. 1240 AD

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon'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 openDon't go back to sleep!

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21c. 1240 AD

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 / quote

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22c. 1240 AD

Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

Jalaluddin Rumi / quote

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23c. 1240 AD

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.

Jalaluddin Rumi / quote

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24c. 1240 AD

I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.

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