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“Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”

“When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish.Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.”

“The same wind that uproots treesmakes the grass shine.The lordly wind loves the weaknessand the lowness of grasses.Never brag of being strong.The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are.It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves.It leaves the leaves alone.”

Forget safety.Live where you fear to live.Destroy your reputation.Be notorious.”

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

“silence is the language of god,all else is poor translation.”

“Don't try to steer the boat.Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,And if you do speak, ask for explanations.”

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“You are a volume in the divine bookA mirror to the power that created the universeWhatever you want, ask it of yourselfWhatever you’re looking for can only be foundInside of you”

“Two there are who are never satisfied--the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”

“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,"You owe me."Look what happens with love like that.It lights up the sky.”

“let's get away fromall the clever humanswho put words in our mouthlet's only say what our hearts desire.”

“Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door will open.”

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

“Respond to every callthat excites your spirit.”

“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.”

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“When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.”

“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.”

“You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“There's a field somewherebeyond all doubt and wrong doing.I'll meet you there.”

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“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When someone is counting outgold for you, don't look at your hands,or the gold. Look at the giver.”

“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.”

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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.”

“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.”

“Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript of 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.”

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

“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?”

“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.”

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

“Look past your thoughts, so you maydrink the pure nectar of This Moment.”

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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.”

“Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.”

“Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”

“Oh sky, without me, do not change,Oh moon, without me, do not shine;Oh earth, without me, do not grow,Oh time, without me, do not go....Oh, you cannot go, without me.”

“The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”

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“Let silence take you to the core of life.”

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”

“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”

“All day I think about it, then at night I say it.Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?I have no idea.My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,And I intend to end up there.This drunkenness began in some other tavern.When I get back around to that place,I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.The day is coming when I fly off,But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?Who says words with my mouth?Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?I cannot stop asking.If I could taste one sip of an answer,I could break out of this prison for drunks.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.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.We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.That's fine with us. Every morningWe glow and in the evening we glow again.”

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“God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.Each note is a need coming through one of us,a passion, a longing pain.Remember the lipswhere the wind-breath originated,and let your note be clear.Don't try to end it.Be your note.”

“Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself.”

“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.”

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”

“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”

"Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

"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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“Work on your strong qualitiesand become resplendent like the ruby.Practice self-denial and accept difficulty.Always see infinite life in letting the self die.Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow.The signs of self-existence will leave your body,and ecstasy will take you over.”

“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”

“You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belongto this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin”

“Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.”

“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.”

“If the wine drinkerhas a deep gentleness in him,he will show that when drunk.But if he has hidden anger and arrogance,those appear.”

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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?”

“I am so close, I may look distant.So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.So out in the open, I appear hidden.So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.”

"You suppose you are the troubleBut you are the cureYou suppose that you are the lock on the doorBut you are the key that opens itIt's too bad that you want to be someone elseYou don't see your own face, your own beautyYet, no face is more beautiful than yours."

“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more--more unseen forms become manifest to him.”

“Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.”

“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?”

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“make your last journeyfrom this strange worldsoar for the heightswhere there is no moreseparation of you and your homeGod has createdyour wings not to be dormantas long as you are aliveyou must try more and moreto use your wings to show you're alive”

“There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.”

“When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.”

“Love is the whole thing.We are only pieces.”

“Take someone who doesn't keep score,who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,who has not the slightest interest evenin his own personality: he's free.”

“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”

“With passion pray.With passion make love.With passion eat and drink and dance and play.Why look like a dead fishin this ocean of God?”

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“Dance until you shatter yourself.”

“Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.”

“Limp along until your legs are spent,and you fall flat and your energy is drained.Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.”

“All people of the world are running away from their freedom of choice and self-awareness into their blind (pleasure-driven) drunkenness.

In order to “save” themselves from having to see things clearly, they fill their lives with disgraceful behavior like drunks and carouse without end.

Everyone should know that this kind of life is a trap in which willfulness and the memory (of what they have done) is a living hell.

They're running away from facing themselves and they become selfish in the process with drunkenness or some other maniacal addiction. Take notice O you mortal soul!”

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“At first, the devil was my teacher, and soon he was no more than a puff of air compared to me.

God saw all of this sinfulness of mine, but then He transformed it as if He never saw it so He could avoid embarrassing me.

Mercy repaired the shredded cloak of my piety, and draped me in repentance sweeter than life itself.

Whatever sins I had committed before, mercy considered them as never having occurred. Whatever duties I had failed to do, mercy considered them done.

Mercy made me as free and pure as the cypress and the lily; it filled my heart with a sense of fortune and joy.

It wrote my name in the Book of the Righteous. I had been destined for Hell; yet it gave me Paradise.

When I had cried, “I’ve fallen to the very bottom of the pit,” my cry became a rope, and that rope was lowered down into my dark hole.

I took hold of that rope and climbed out. I became happy and strong, committed and cheerful.

Once I was lying in misery at the bottom of the pit; now I’ve transcended the whole world! Praise be to You, O God, for you carried me far from my distress.

Even if the tip of every hair of mine could gain the power to speak, that still wouldn’t express the amount of thanks due to You.

Among the gardens and fountains of Paradise, I’m crying out to all humanity, “Oh, if only my people knew about all of this!”

From Mathnawi V, 2305-2316

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The day I've died, my pall is moving on -But do not think my heart is still on earth!Don't weep and pity me: "Oh woe, how awful!"You fall in devil's snare - woe, that is awful!Don't cry "Woe, parted!" at my burial -For me this is the time of joyful meeting!Don't say "Farewell!" when I'm put in the grave -A curtain is it for eternal bliss.You saw "descending" - now look at the rising!Is setting dangerous for sun and moon?To you it looks like setting, but it's rising;The coffin seems a jail, yet it means freedom.Which seed fell in the earth that did not grow there?Why do you doubt the fate of human seed?What bucket came not filled from out the cistern?Why should the Yusaf "Soul" then fear this well?Close here your mouth and open it on that side.So that your hymns may sound in Where- no-place!

Schimmel, Annemarie. Look! This Is Love: Poems of Rumi.Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, 1991.

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“Some Hindus have an elephant to show.No one here has ever seen an elephant.They bring it at night to a dark room.One by one, we go in the dark and come outsaying how we experience the animal.One of us happens to touch the trunk.A water-pipe kind of creature.Another, the ear. A strong, always movingback and forth, fan-animal. Another, the leg.I find it still, like a column on a temple.Another touches the curve back.A leathery throne. Another, the cleverest,feels the tusk. A rounded sword made of porcelain.He is proud of his description.Each of us touches one placeand understands the whole in that way.The palm and the fingers feeling in the darkare how the senses explore the reality of the elephant.If each of us held a candle there,and if we went in together, we could see it.”

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