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41 " You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin "
― Rumi , Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
42 " You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange. "
― Rumi , The Essential Rumi
43 " The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. "
― Rumi
44 " You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity.We're the language that tries to say it.You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing. "
45 " You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one. "
46 " If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. "
47 " You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know? "
48 " Woman is the light of God. "
49 " The way you make love is the way God will be with you. "
50 " SUDDEN RESURRECTION! Endless mercy!Blazing fire in the thickets of thought! Today you came laughing Unlocking dungeons Came to the meek Like god’s grace and bountyYou are the antechamber to the sunYou are the hope’s prerequisite You are sought Seeker Terminus PrincipiaYou pulse in every chest adorn every idea then permit their realizationSpirit- spring, irreplaceableDelight of action and cognition.All the rest is pretext, fraud- the former, illness; the latter, cureWe’re jaundiced by that fraudHeart-set to slay an innocentDrunk, now on angel eyesNow on plain bread and soupTaste this intoxication, drop your ratiocination Savor these delectable Drop the debatablesA little bread and greensShould not entail so much trouble*Ghazal 1 "
― Rumi , Rumi: Swallowing the Sun: Poems Translated from Persian
51 " Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. "
― Rumi , مثنوی معنوی
52 " This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. "
53 " Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy. "
54 " Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. "
― Rumi , Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi
55 " How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. "
56 " Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure. "
57 " A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute "
58 " Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It's a bait for popularity.Disputational knowing wants customers.It has no soul...The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish. "
59 " When you go through a hard period,When everything seems to oppose you,... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,NEVER GIVE UP!Because it is the time and place that the course will divert! "
60 " Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. "