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All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

— 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.

The Essential Rumi (1995)

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

The Essential Rumi (1995)

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

The Essential Rumi (1995)

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

The Essential Rumi (1995)

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

The Essential Rumi (1995)

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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