What is your favorite poem or quote by Rumi, the Sufi mystic?
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Shan is Purrrrrfectly Happy
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alright ~ i normally dont answer my own, but heres one for y'all... ~ "your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
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How could the soul not take flight When from the glorious Presence A soft call flows sweet as honey, comes right up to her And whispers, "Rise up now, come away". How could the fish not jump Immediately from dry land into water When the sound of water from the ocean Of fresh waves springs to his ear? How could the hawk not fly away Forgetful of all hunting to the wrist of the king As soon as he hears the drum The king's baton hits again and again, Drumming out the signal of return? How could the Sufi not start to dance, Turning on himself, like the atom, in the sun of eternity, So he can leap free of this dying world? Fly away, fly away bird to your native home: You have leapt free of the cage Your wings are flung back in the wind of God. Leave behind the stagnant and marshy waters, Hurry, hurry, O bird, to the Source of Life. Others are on my profile too!
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The Freshness When it's cold and raining, you are more beautiful. And the snow brings me even closer to your lips. The inner secret, that which was never born, you are that freshness, and I am with you now. I can't explain the goings, or the comings. You enter suddenly, and I am nowhere again. Inside the majesty.
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'Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.' What more can we say?
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