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21 " Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. "
― Rumi , The Essential Rumi
22 " You have read in the text where They love himblends with He loves them.Those joining lovesare both qualities of God. Fear is not.What characteristics do God and human beingshave in common? What is the connection betweenwhat lives in time and what lives in eternity?If I kept talking about love,a hundred new combinings would happen,and still I would not say the mystery. "
23 " I have no name for what circles so perfectly. "
― Coleman Barks , The Essential Rumi
24 " Water the fruit trees, and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentry and knotted up tumors. "
25 " Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant. "
26 " I have no name for what circles so perfectly "
27 " Respond to every call that excites your spirit. "
28 " Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. "
29 " I will be waiting here....For your silence to break,For your soul to shake,For your love to wake! "
30 " Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way. "
31 " What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs. "
32 " I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. "
33 " Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations. "
34 " Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty. "
35 " There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts. "
36 " The same wind that uproots treesmakes the grass shine.The lordly wind loves the weaknessand the lowness of grasses.Never brag of being strong.The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are.It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves.It leaves the leaves alone. "
37 " There are thousands of winesthat can take over our minds.Don't think all ecstasiesare the same!Jesus was lost in his love for God.His donkey was drunk with barley. "
38 " There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. "
39 " Brother, stand the pain.Escape the poison of your impulses.The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do.Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping.That way a thorn expands to a rose. "
40 " 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. "