Rumi Poetry
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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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you're perfectly free.
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If you are irritated by every rub,
how will your mirror be polished?
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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There is a candle in your heart,
ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?