R u m i   p o e t r y

The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

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Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing,
there is a field -I'll meet you there -
when the soul lies down in that grass,
ideas, language, even the words "each other" don't make any sense

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"No one suffers enough," he said.
"Be the one who suffers everything
and comes to me with nothing but this bowl
into which I can pour my wine."

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I stood at the edge of insanity,
I came to a door, I knocked, the door opened....
I was standing on the inside.

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believe me
i wasn't always like this
lacking common sense
or looking insane

like you
i used to be clever
in my days...

since i was not yet hunted down
by this
ever-increasing love

- Rumi
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