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| If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished. |
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When I
run after what I think I want, my
days are
a furnace of stress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what
I need
flows to me and without pain. From this I understand, that what I want,
also
wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for
anyone who
can grasp
it. What I want also wants me, is looking for
me and is
attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone you
can grasp
it." Jalaluddin Rumi
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| If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face |
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| You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life |
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| You are not the drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in the drop. |
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Don't
grieve, anything you lose comes round in another form.
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When
someone beats the rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust
in it.
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Not
Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion
or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or
up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I
do not exist, am not an entity in this world or in the next, did not descend
from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the
traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the Beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know. first, last, outer, inner, only
that breath breathing human being.
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| Raise
your words not voice, It is rain that grows flowers, not thunders. |
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| That
which is false, troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility |
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