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Rumi

Rumi

Poet · Unknown · 1207 – 1273

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If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.
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Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.
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In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.
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Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.
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The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful.
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Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.
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Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
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Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying.
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I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love
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Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.
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A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another
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Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
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Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate
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There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.
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Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.
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Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.
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Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
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This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
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All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
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