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1 " Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about. "
― Rumi
2 " When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them. "
3 " In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. "
4 " Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. "
5 " Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. "
6 " This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. "
7 " A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. "
― Rumi , Words of Paradise: Selected Poems
8 " I know you're tired but come, this is the way. "
9 " That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. "
10 " I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star. "
11 " Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you. "
12 " I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you. "
13 " God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one "
― Rumi , The Essential Rumi
14 " Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! "
15 " Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. "
16 " I choose to love you in silence…For in silence I find no rejection,I choose to love you in loneliness…For in loneliness no one owns you but me,I choose to adore you from a distance…For distance will shield me from pain,I choose to kiss you in the wind…For the wind is gentler than my lips,I choose to hold you in my dreams…For in my dreams, you have no end. "
17 " When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. "
18 " 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. "
19 " In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat. "
20 " I am yours.Don't give myself back to me. "
