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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    ― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
    tags: wisdom
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “The only mistake you have made is asking the wrong question. It isn't about what you did wrong. It's what you have not yet done.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: life-lessons, roses, rumi, spirituality
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: dance, embrace-who-you-are, fear, love, mistakes, rumi
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: dance, destiny, essence-of-life, one-with-the-universe, rumi, sufi
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: attention, coming-of-age, destiny, rumi, serve, understanding
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: betrayal, forgiveness, love, roses, rumi, sweetness
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: birth, dance, love, reborn, rumi, sema, sufi
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: other-people, rocks, roses, rumi, self-awareness, viewpoint
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: inspiration, love, pain, pity, pride, roses, rumi
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “She did not need anyone else's love when she had roses.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: inspiration, love, roses, rumi
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: faith, god, heart, love, risk, rumi, spirituality
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne
    tags: forgiveness, human-experience, life, love, rumi, spirit, work
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “...purification was the point of such pain.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: forgiveness, love, moving-on, pain, purification, rumi
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “Your transformation will be the miracle.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: love, miracle, rumi, spirituality, transformation
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “...see the blessing and beauty that you are.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: beauty, blessing, love, rumi
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: beauty, burned, forgiveness, healing, love, moving-on, rumi, spirituality
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: forgiveness, lose-your-mind, love, perspective, rumi, understanding
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: deprive, doing-what-you-love, holding-you-back, limitations, love, purge, trust
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: choice, fault, friends, life, love, rumi
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    Holly Lynn Payne
    “The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: grace, grief, help, love, roses, rumi, the-point
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