Rumi unleashed

"When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them."

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"It may be that the satisfaction I need
depends on my going away,
so that when I've gone and come back,
I'll find it at home."

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"Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it."

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You are in love with me,
I shall make you perplexed.
Do not build much,
for I intend to have you in ruins.
If you build two hundred houses
in a manner that the bees do;
I shall make you as homeless
as a fly.
If you are the mount Qaf in stability.
I shall make you whirl like a millstone.
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If you are irritated by every rub,

how will your mirror be polished?
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How could you reach the pearl
by only looking at the sea?
If you seek the pearl,
be a diver:
the diver needs several qualities:
he must trust his rope and
his life to the Friend's hand,
he must stop breathing,
and he must jump.
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The soul which cannot endure fire
and smoke
won't find the Secret.
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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.
Finally, to take a step without feet."

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RUMI