"Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire."
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"Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself."
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"I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky."
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"To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child."
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"Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a champion."
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"But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you."
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"Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself."
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"One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure."
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"Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I."
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"The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same."
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"Be an empty page, untouched by words."
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"Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants."
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"The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!"
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"How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!"
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"This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain."
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"The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible."
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"If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to."
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"Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them."
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"Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer."
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"In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love."
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