Love Dimensions Poetry
What Happens
What happens when your soul
Begins to awaken
Your eyes
And your heart
And the cells of your body
To the great Journey of Love?
First there is wonderful laughter
And probably precious tears
And a hundred sweet promises
And those heroic vows
No one can ever keep.
But still God is delighted and amused
You once tried to be a saint.
What happens when your soul
Begins to awake in this world
To our deep need to love
And serve the Friend?
O the Beloved
Will send you
One of His wonderful, wild companions-
Like Hafiz.
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The Subject Tonight Is Love
The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well.
As a matter of fact,
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!
Hafiz
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Your heart is the size of an ocean.
Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
Rumi
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As you live deeper in the heart,
the mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
Rumi
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Love is the way
Messengers from the mystery
tell us things.
Love is the mother.
We are her children.
She shines inside us,
Visible-invisible, as we trust
Or lose trust,
Or feel it start to grow again.
Rumi
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Give me freedom to sing without an echo,
Give me freedom to fly without a shadow,
and to love without leaving traces.
(From the golden sufi centre)
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There are people with their eyes open
Whose hearts are shut. What do they see? Matter.
But someone whose love is alert,
Even if the eyes go to go sleep,
He or she will be waking up thousands of others.
If you are not one of those light-filled lovers,
Restrain your desire-body’s intensity.
Put limits on how much you eat
And how long you lie down.
But if you are awake in the chest,
Sleep long and soundly.
Your spirit will be out roaming and working.
Even on the seventh level.
Muhammed says, I close my eyes and rest in sleep,
But my love never needs to rest.
The guard at the gate drowses.
The king stays awake. You have a king inside
Who listens for what delights the soul.
That king’s wakefulness
Cannot be described in a poem.
Rumi
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Love asks for nothing and risks everything.
Rumi
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If you can’t smell the fragrance
Don’t come into the garden of Love.
If you’re unwilling to undress
Don’t enter into the stream of Truth.
Stay where you are.
Don’t come our way.
Rumi
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Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite Love.
Hafiz
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Love as if your life depends on it ,
Because it does.
Michael Franti
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"If you open your heart, love opens your mind."
The Dalai Lama
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Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love?
The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
Rumi
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Gamble everything for love,
If you are a true human being.
If not, leave this gathering.
Rumi
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Half heartedness does not reach
Into majesty. You set out
To find God, but then you keep
Stopping for long periods
At mean spirited roadhouses.
Rumi
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How will I allow
The Lords devastating kiss
To burn my lips
If I can’t open right now
To the gentle touch
Of tiny fluttering wings
Of Love
As they brush by….
Hafiz
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There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love
It has to creep and crawl amongst the lovers first
Only lovers can escape from these two worlds.
This was written in creation.
Only from the heart can you reach the sky.
The Rose of Glory can only be raised in the heart
Rumi
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Love is the cure, for your pain will keep
giving birth to more pain until your eyes
constantly exhale love as effortlessly
as your body yields its scent.
Rumi
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Lose yourself, lose yourself in this love.
When you lose yourself in this love,
you will find everything.
Rumi
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O love, o pure deep love,
be here, be now.
Be all.
Rumi
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The real Love I will always keep a secret.
All my words are sung outside her window, for when She lets me in, I take a thousand oaths of silence.
But, then She says, O, then God says,
"What the hell, Hafiz, why not give the whole world my address.
Hafiz
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
Rabindranath Tagore
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
Rumi
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On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.
Rumi
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Give yourself a kiss.
If you want to hold the beautiful one,
hold yourself to yourself.
Rumi
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Through Love all that is bitter
becomes sweet
Through love all that is copper
becomes gold
Through Love all dregs will turn
to purest wine;
Through Love all pain becomes medicine.
Through Love the dead become alive,
Through Love the king becomes a slave.
Rumi
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When at first
love captured my heart
my cries kept the neighbours awake all night.
Now that my love has grown deeper
my cries have calmed down.
When fire catches, smoke
disappears.
Rumi
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The way you make love
Is the way God will be with you.
Rumi
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You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don't be without Love,
so you won't feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.
Rumi
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Love is fire. To suffer in love is creative,
it takes you to higher levels of consciousness.
Osho
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Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our tea cup talk of God.
If you had the courage and could give the Beloved His choice,
some nights He would just drag you around the room by your hair,
Ripping from your grip all the toys in the world that bring you no joy.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth
That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days.
God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside a tiny room with Himself
And practice his drop-kick.
The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor:
Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
But when we hear He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know quickly packs their bags and
hightails it out of town. (Hafiz)
The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall, and falling they're given wings.
Rumi
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Pink Essence - Appreciative Unconditional love
But whoever said unconditional love was easy?
It is not easy.
It is internal genocide.
The flames ravage without discrimination.
Leaving no part of me untouched.
But I'd rather die than never know this love.
So have no pity, dear friend.
Sit by my side as I burn.
Jeff Foster
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Gold Essence - Merging love
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe me”
Look what happens with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky
Hafiz
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'Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?'
Rumi
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Always check your inner state
With the lord of your heart
Copper does not know it´s copper,
Until it is changing into gold.
Your loving does not know its majesty,
Until it knows its helplessness.
Rumi
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When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.
Arabic Proverb
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Dissolver of sugar, dissolve me,
If this is the time.
Do it gently with a touch of a hand, or a look
Every morning I wait at dawn.
That is when it has happened before.
Or do it suddenly , like an execution.
How else can I get ready for death?
You breathe without a body, like a spark.
You grieve and I begin the feel lighter.
You keep me away with your arm
But the keeping away is pulling me in.
Rumi
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The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.
Your essence is gold hidden in dust.
To reveal its splendor , you need to burn in the fire of love.
Rumi
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Give Thanks
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death ... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare.
If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful ... you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder ... you are blessed because you can offer a healing touch.
If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Isn't this a wonderful day to give thanks?
Unknown
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Fall in Love with the Agony of Love, not the Ecstasy.
Then the Beloved will fall in Love with you.
Rumi
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Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite Love.
Hafiz
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Look as long as you can at the friend you love,
no matter whether that friend is moving away from you
or coming back to you.
Rumi
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When the power of love
overcomes the love of power,
The world will know peace.
Jimmy Hendrix
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You are such an ocean of Love,
That you have no boundary.
The desire man and woman
Feel for each other,
Is only a drop from that ocean.
Rumi
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It appears that love was born from me,
But don’t believe that.
If fact, I was born from that love
Rumi
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Pomegranate - Ecstatic Passionate love.
This wine I drink today
Was never held in a clay jar
I love this world
Even as I hear the great wind
of leaving it , rising.
For there is a grainy taste I prefer
To every idea of heaven:
Human Friendship
Rumi
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The agony of lovers
burns with the fire of passion.
Lovers leave traces of where they've been.
The wailing of broken hearts
is the doorway to God.
Rumi
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I swallowed some of the beloveds wine and now I am ill.
My body aches
My fever is high
They call in the doctor
And he said: Drink this tea.
Okay, time to drink this tea
Take these pills
Okay time to take these pills
Then the doctor says:
Get rid of the sweet wine of his lips
Okay,
Time to get rid of the doctor
Rumi
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Love came and became like blood in my body.
It rushed through my veins and encircled my heart.
Everywhere I looked I saw one thing:
The beloved’s name written on my limbs,
On my left palm, on my forehead, on the back of my neck,
On my right toe
Oh my friend, all that I see of me belongs to be beloved.
Rumi
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I used to be shy
You made me sing
I used to refuse things at the table
Now I shout for more wine
In serious dignity I used to sit on my mat and pray
Now children run by and make faces at me.
Rumi
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Your love became blood in my body.
This is the spirit marrying the flesh, this creation, the body.
Laila
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When the soul first put on the body’s shirt,
the ocean lifted up all its gifts and that union took place
When love first tasted the lips of human beings it started singing
when the divine united with the flesh.
You are in my eyes, how else could I see light
You are in my brain, this wild joy
If love did not live in matter,
how would any place have any hold on anyone.
Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out at my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side seeing and holding the lockets of her hair.
My face became all eyes and my eyes all hands
Rumi
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I want nothing to do, with this world or the next. Yet I do not turn away. My heart is filled with a million wonders, beholding the sight. What madness keeps me from becoming totally mad.
Rumi
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The whole world just got thick again with God.
And everywhere I look Makes me feel very proud
That all the objects and creatures Can remain looking So poised
And acting so cool While keeping the Great Secret So well
And not blissfully shout All day long the Reality
I Am – I Am the Wine!
The whole universe just got stoned out of its mind again
On the Beauty of God.
Hafiz
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The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
Rumi
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"Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love,
If you are too careful, Love will not find you..."
Rumi
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Inside this new love die
You way begins on the other side
Become the sky
Take an axe to the prison wall
Escape
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color
Do it now
You are covered with thick cloud
Slide out the side. Die
And be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign
That you have died.
Your old life was a frantic running from silence.
The speechless full moon
Comes out now.
Rumi
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Some mysterious opening of essence builds as
we turn the refuse of mistakes
over in the sun,
like garbage being composted
on a Damascus street.
Rumi
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Man's desire is to jump out of the world,
and God's desire is to plunge into the world.
Man's desire is to be God,
and God's desire is to be man.
Osho
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...When the soul first puts on the body’s shirt, the ocean lifted up all its gifts
When love first tasted the lips of human Beings, it started singing
...You are in my eyes, how else could I see light? You are in my brain, this wild joy.
If love did not live in matter, how would any place have any hold on anyone?
Rumi
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I want nothing to do, with this world or the next. Yet I do not turn away.
My heart is filled with a million wonders, beholding the sight.
What madness keeps me from becoming totally mad.
Rumi
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If it is not too dark
Go for a walk if it is not too dark.
Get some fresh air, try to smile.
Say something kind to a safe looking stranger, If one happens by.
Always exercise your hearts knowing.
You might as well attempt something real along this path.
Take your spouse or lover into your arms
The way you did when you first met.
Let tenderness pour from your eyes
The way the sun gazes warmly on the earth.
Play a game with some children.
Extend yourself to a friend
Sing a few ribald songs to your pets and plants.
Why not let them get drunk and wild!
Let’s toast every rung we have climbed on evolutions ladder.
Whisper, “I love you, I love you!”
To the whole mad world.
Let’s stop reading about God.
We will never understand him.
Jump to your feet, wave your fists,
Threaten and warn the whole universe
That your heart can no longer live
Without real love!!!
Hafiz
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No lover ever searches for union
If his beloved is not also seeking him.
Rumi
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The love of lovers makes them thin
The beloveds love makes them full and shining
When the lightning of love for the beloved
Falls from heaven and strikes this heart
Know that love is also firing that heart.
And when the love for him brims over in your heart
Know that the love for you is also brimming in his.
Can the sound of clapping come only from one hand?
Rumi
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It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day It will begin to happen again on earth--
That men and women who are married,
And men and men who are lovers,
And women who give each other Light,
Often will get down on their knees And while so tenderly
Holding their lover's hand,
With tears in their eyes, Will sincerely speak, saying,
"My dear, How can I be more loving to you;
How can I be more Kind?"
Hafiz
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When all your desire are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more
And be happy.
Hafiz
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Give me freedom to sing without an echo,
Give me freedom to fly without a shadow,
and to love without leaving traces.
Sufi Saying
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If you open your heart, love opens your mind.
The Dalai Lama
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Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
Rumi
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The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall, and falling they're given wings.
Rumi
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No better love than love with no object
No more satisfying work
Than work with no purpose
If you could give up tricks and cleverness,
That would be the cleverest trick.
Rumi
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Love more, feel more, enjoy more,
so that you can feed your heart.
Watch the sunrise, the sunset, the clouds,
the rainbows, the birds on the wings, the flowers, the animals, the rocks, the people --
look into their eyes.
It is such a multidimensional existence.
Look into every dimension but look as a poet: to praise, to feel. Be ecstatic!
Osho
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Through Love all that is bitter
becomes sweet
Through love all that is copper
becomes gold
Through Love all dregs will turn
to purest wine;
Through Love all pain becomes medicine.
Through Love the dead become alive,
Through Love the king becomes a slave.
Rumi
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In the slaughterhouse of love
They kill only the best,
None of the weak or deformed.
Do not run away from this dying.
Whoever is not killed for love is dead meat.
Rumi
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Gamble everything for love,
If you are a true human being.
If not, leave this gathering.
Half heartedness does not reach
Into majesty. You set out
To find God, but then you keep
Stopping for long periods
At mean spirited roadhouses.
Rumi
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Horror has its day, or year, or decade, or century.
The Sun of Love has never, and will never, set.
Whatever you have to go through,
to know this beyond any shadow of a doubt is worth it.
From someone written in Auswitsch.
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Man's desire is to jump out of the world,
and God's desire is to plunge into the world.
Man's desire is to be God,
and God's desire is to be man.
Osho
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...When the soul first puts on the body’s shirt,
the ocean lifted up all its gifts
When love first tasted the lips of human Beings,
it started singing
...You are in my eyes, how else could I see light?
You are in my brain, this wild joy.
If love did not live in matter,
how would any place have any hold on anyone?
Rumi
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Saffran
Guard your good deeds from the eyes of men
with the same ferver you hide your bad deeds from them. ~
Rabia al-Adawiyya
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Give anonymous
the gentle outlast the strong
the obscure outlast the obvious
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe me”
Look what happens with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky
Hafiz
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Living daylight
May today there be peace within.
May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others.
May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content with yourself just the way you are.
Let this knowledge settle into your bones,
and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of us.
Theresa of Avila
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How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of Light against its being;
otherwise we all remain too frightened.
Hafiz
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Drop worrying. There is nothing to worry about;
all is taken care of.
Live with that trust.
Osho
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Luminous black
Don't surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.
Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice
So tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear.
Hafiz
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There is nothing in the world
that exists outside yourself.
Look into the depth of your being
for that which you desire.
Rumi
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