Tag: Rumi

……and find joy in them

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When you do things from your soul,

you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Rumi

Quietly, the snow melts

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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

A white flower grows in quietness.

Let your tongue become that flower

Rumi

Touch the sky

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Only from the heart

Can you touch the sky

Rumi

On not being half hearted

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Today is the Feast of All Saints. The easiest way to understand a saint – in the different world religions – is to see them as people who gave allowed themselves be surprised and consumed by love. They gave with their whole hearts, often not counting the cost.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.
If not, leave this gathering.

Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
You set out to find God,
but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspitited roadhouses.

Don’t wait any longer…

Rumi

Everything comes around

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Don’t grieve.

Anything you lose comes round in another form

Rumi

The garden of love

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The garden of
Love is green without limit, and yields many fruits other than sorrow
and joy.

Love is beyond either condition:
without spring,
without autumn,
it is always fresh.

Rumi