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Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there i

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. – Rumi

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Come, whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times, still and yet again come! – Rumi

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If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring. – Rumi

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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment… – Rumi, translated by Edward Henry Whinfield

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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened…. Let the beauty we love be what we do. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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