Vinculums of the Nexus
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No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.
~Mevlana Rumi
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The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.
~Mevlana Rumi
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When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.
~Mevlana Rumi
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one cannot lodge in 'if.'
~Mevlana Rumi
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
~Mevlana Rumi
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If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
~Mevlana Rumi
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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
~Mevlana Rumi
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The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
~Mevlana Rumi
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
~Mevlana Rumi
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
~Mevlana Rumi
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Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
~Mevlana Rumi