“You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.”
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“Whenever we manage to love without expectations,
calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
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calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
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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.”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
“There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
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