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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This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober. – Rumi

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What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I’ve lived too long where I can be reached. – Rumi

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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside! – Rumi

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Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows. – Rumi

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