#rumi

The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure for our listlessness is to be out within the invigorating wind. The cure for our uselessness is to take back up our stewardship; for it is not that there has been no work to be done, we simply have not been attending to it. ↗

— L.M. Browning

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…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union, to fiercely search for and try to say the truth, and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being in human incarnation. ↗

— Coleman Barks

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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ↗

— Rumi

#love #love-is-like-a-lawsuit #rumi #love

Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming? ↗

— Rumi

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For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire. ↗

— Rumi

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On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter. ↗

— Rumi

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This is love: To fly toward a secret sky, To cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; To regard this world as invisible, And to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, To see beyond seeing itself, To reach and feel within the breast. —Rumi ↗

— Esha Mirari

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Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another. ↗

— Rumi

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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? ↗

— Rumi

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The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it came down to it; there were very few who enjoyed flights of fantasy, and to have that sort of mind--one which enjoyed dry with and understood the absurd--left one in a shrinking minority. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

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