"Everything has to do with loving and..." - Quote by Rumi
Everything has to do with loving and not loving.
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“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
“They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
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“Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.”
“Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.”
“I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.”
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“Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.”
“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”
“Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.”