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Be empty of worrying…. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. – Rumi

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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. – Rumi, as interpreted by Camille and Kabir Helminski

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And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. – Rumi

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Across time, place, and culture, Rumi’s poems articulate what it feels like to be alive, and they help us understand our own search for love and the ecstatic in the coil of daily life. – Lee Briccetti

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