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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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Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing. – Rumi

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At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window. – Rumi

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[The] combination of mystical richness and bold adaptations of poetic forms is the key to [Rumi’s] popularity… – Jawid Mojaddedi

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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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