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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Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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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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…rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky. – Rumi

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Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there. – Rumi

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