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Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

— Coleman Barks The Essential Rumi (1995)

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There is no reality but God,
says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

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What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.

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Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

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Gamble everything for love,
if you are a true human being.

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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

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