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Argue not concerning God,… re-examine all you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul….
Rumi and Shams met for the second time, they fell at each other’s feet, so that “no one knew who was lover and who the beloved.”
The study of this book will be painful to those who feel separate from God.
I had been away from my own soul so long, so late-sleeping, but that dove’s crying woke me and made me cry. Praise to all early-waking grievers!
“Why are you out wandering the streets in the middle of the night?” “Sir,” replies Nasruddin, “if I knew the answer to that question, I would have been home hours ago!”
Close both eyes to see with the other eye.
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
Without purity of spirit, if you’re still in the middle of lust and greed and other warnings, you’re like children playing at sexual intercourse. They wrestle and rub together, but it’s not sex!
Last year, I gazed at the fire. This year I’m burnt kabob.
“You are the sky my spirit circles in, the love inside love, the resurrection-place.
Let your tongue become that flower.
