Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
RUMIThe angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
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Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.
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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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Look for the answer inside your question.
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping.
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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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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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The soul is here for its own joy.
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Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof.
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