This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.
RumiPlant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
RumiWe can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror
RumiKnow the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
RumiLearn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.
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