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The wisdom of Rumi
Ghazal 838 if you pass your night and merge it with dawn for the sake of heart what do you think will happen if the entire world is covered with the blossoms you have labored to plant what do you … Continue reading
The wisdom of Rumi
Advice doesn’t help lovers! They’re not the kind of mountain stream you can build a dam across. An intellectual doesn’t know what the drunk is feeling! Don’t try to figure what those lost inside love will do next! Someone in … Continue reading
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The wisdom of Rumi
Ghazal 119 I don’t need a companion who is nasty sad and sour the one who is like a grave dark depressing and bitter a sweetheart is a mirror a friend a delicious cake it isn’t worth spending an hour … Continue reading
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There’s courage involved if you want to become truth. There is a broken- open place in a lover. Where are those qualities of bravery and sharp compassion in this group? What’s the use of old and frozen thought? I want … Continue reading
The wisdom of Rumi
There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye. … Continue reading
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The wisdom of Rumi
Friend, our closeness is this Anywhere you put your foot Feel me in the firmness under you How ist it with this love I see your world and not you ? From: the illuminated Rumi
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The wisdom of Rumi
Until you’ve found pain, you won’t reach the cure Until you’ve given up life, you won’t unite with the supreme soul Until you’ve found fire inside yourself, like the Friend, You won’t reach the spring of life, like Khezr. Khezr … Continue reading
The wisdom of Rumi
Come, come, whoever you are Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving It doesn’t matter Ours is not a caravan of despair Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times Come, yet again, come, come
The wisdom of Rumi
Birdsong brings relief to my longing I’m just as ecstatic as they are but with nothing to say! Please unveil soul, practice some song or something through me. From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks
The wisdom of Rumi
“Out beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
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