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You're not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
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Rumi
Born: 1207
Born: September 30
Islamic Scholar
Literary
Mystic
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Umm Al-Belaad
Jalālauddīna Rūmī
Ǧalāladdīn Rūmī
Dzhalaliddin Rumi
Jalaluʼddin Rumi
Gialâl ad-Dîn Rûmî
Jalálu-ʼd-ʼDín Muhammad i Rúmí
Dzhaloluddin Rumi
Celâleddin Rûmî
Ŷalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Jalāluddīn Balkhī Rumī
Jolalud-Din Rumi
Zhaloliddin Rumiĭ
Jalaladdin Rumi
Dschelal-Eddin Rumi
Jalāluddīn Muḥammad Balkhī Rūmī
Rum
Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī
Dschalaludd
Drop
Entire
Ocean
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And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.
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We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
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Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.
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My sight My heart My Life All three words I have woven into one ... Love.
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In our hearts there burns a fire... That burns all veils to their root and foundation When those veils have been burned away Then the heart will understand completely. Ancient love will unfold ever-fresh forms In the heart of the Spirit, In the core of the heart.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart
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Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.
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Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.
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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
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O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
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You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance
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We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes.
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Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.
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Dance when you're perfectly free.
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