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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

—Rumi

“Relax your souls with new sparks of wisdom, because souls also tire as bodies do.”

—Ali ibn Abi Tailb (as); Al-Kafi, 16:1

“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”

—Sufi Proverb

“ Let yourself become living poetry. ”

—Rumi

“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away, afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea.”

—Rumi

“Don't look for love. Look for the one looking for love.”

—Rumi

“Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

—Rumi
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Dear Rumi “fans,”

When Rumi writes about “love,” he’s talking about God, not about what you feel for the guy who won’t return your texts. 

Sincerely,

A frustrated Osama who hates reading Rumi books in public now. 

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