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“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
“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”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.
The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
― The Essential Rumi
The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
― The Essential Rumi
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