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A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. - Rum

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible. – Rumi

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What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. – Rumi

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There is a way of breathing that’s a shame and a suffocation and there’s another way of expiring, a love breath, that lets you open infinitely. – Rumi

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[Rumi’s words are an] expression of praise and grief and gratitude and play. – Coleman Barks

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