What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The

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

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Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing. – Rumi

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Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin. – Coleman Barks

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