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JalaladDinRumi

  1. Don't let your throat tighten with fear. Take sips of breath all day and night, before death closes your mouth. 9:27 AM Aug 3rd, 2009 via web
  2. I begged you not to trouble me so with longing. Come out and play! Flirt more naturally. Teach me how to kiss. 8:42 AM May 22nd, 2009 via web
  3. Close the language-door and open the love window. The moon won't use the door, only the window. 7:05 AM May 13th, 2009 via web
  4. The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruit other than sorrow and joy. Love is beyond either condition. 5:47 AM May 12th, 2009 via web
  5. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. 7:30 AM May 11th, 2009 via web
  6. And if the ocean's water would not rise to the sky, How would the plants be quickened by streams and gentle rain? 9:05 AM May 7th, 2009 via web
  7. Lightening is not guidance ... The streak lightening of our minds comes so we'll weep, longing for our real lives. 5:03 PM May 4th, 2009 via web
  8. Even if you don't know what you want, buy _something_, to be part of the exchanging flow. Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. 11:26 AM May 1st, 2009 via web
  9. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. 5:45 PM Apr 30th, 2009 via web
  10. Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. 10:13 AM Apr 29th, 2009 via web
  11. To the mind, there is such a thing as news, whereas to inner knowing, it's all in the middle of its happening. To doubters, this is a pain. 11:19 AM Apr 28th, 2009 via web
  12. Many-ness is having sixty different emotions. Unity is peace and silence. 7:23 PM Apr 26th, 2009 via web
  13. The whole world is a form for truth. When someone does not feel grateful to that, the forms appear to be as he feels. They mirror his anger, 11:14 AM Apr 22nd, 2009 via web
  14. A candle as it diminishes explains, Gathering more and more is not the way. Burn, become light and heat and help. Melt. 6:24 PM Mar 15th, 2009 via web
  15. Muhammad said no one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was! 8:05 AM Jan 5th, 2009 via BrightKit
  16. The same way a branch draws water up many feet, God is pulling your soul along. Wind carries pollen from blossom to ground. 12:00 PM Jan 4th, 2009 via BrightKit
  17. The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter. 5:00 AM Jan 3rd, 2009 via BrightKit
  18. Those who work at a bakery don't know the taste of bread like the hungry beggars do. 11:00 AM Jan 2nd, 2009 via BrightKit
  19. However your robe of patches fits is right. If you are God's light, keep moving east to west as you have been. 7:00 AM Jan 1st, 2009 via BrightKit
  20. And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. 3:00 PM Dec 31st, 2008 via BrightKit