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Love is a perfect muzzle of evil suggestions;
Without love who ever succeeded in stopping them?
Be a lover and seek that fair beauty,
Haunt for that waterfowl in every Stream!
How can you get water from that which cuts it off,
How gain understanding from what destroys understanding,
Apart from principles of reason are other principles
Of light and great price to be gained by love of God,
Besides this reason of yours God has other reasons
Which will procure for you heavenly nourishment.

— Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
Every success depends upon focusing the heart.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exists because of the fruit.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

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