This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively g

This world’s existence is one night long. There’s a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it. – Rumi

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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. – Robert Bly

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You’ve been walking the ocean’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper! – Rumi

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To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life-energy of the soul. – 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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