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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Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. – Rumi

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I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled. – Rumi

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