Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns. - Rumi

Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns. – Rumi

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You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment. – Rumi

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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings…. Leave and don’t look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you’re sometimes crescent, sometimes full. – Rumi

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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that light becomes this art. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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