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The wisdom of Rumi
Ghazal 2133 wake up, wake up this night is gone wake up abandon abandon even your dear self abandon there is an idiot in our market place selling a precious soul if you doubt my word get up this moment … Continue reading
The wisdom of Rumi
If you want what visible reality can give, you’re an employee. If you want the unseen world, you’re not living your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love’s confusing … Continue reading
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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Tagged Fountain of Fire, Islam, Nader Khalili, Poetry, Rumi, Sufism
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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
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
How long will you think about this painful life? How long will you think about this harmful world? The only thing it can take from you is your body. Don’t say all this rubbish and stop thinking.
The wisdom of Rumi
This is for a friend of mine….. You sit here for days saying, “This is strange business.” You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of … Continue reading
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