Rumi: To Wander In the Field of Flowers Pull the Thorns From Your Heart

  Very little grows on jagged rock. 

Be ground. 

Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up 

where You are. 

 

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To wander in the fields of flowers
pull the thorns from your Heart.

 

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Protect Yourself... 

From Your Own Thoughts.

 

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“I said: what about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.

I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.

I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?

I said: Pain and sorrow.

He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place 

where the Light enters you.

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My heart is so small

it's almost invisible.

How can You place

such big sorrows in it?

"Look," He answered,

"your eyes are even smaller,

yet they behold the world."

 

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Always remember you are braver than 

you believe, stronger than you seem, 

smarter than you think and twice

as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. 

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to 

change the world. Today I am wise, 

so I am changing myself.

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I looked in temples, churches and mosques.

But I found the Divine within my heart.

 

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What a Joy, 

to travel the way of the Heart.

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Although I may try to describe love, when I 
experience it, 
I am speechless ....

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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, 

worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. 

Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even 

if you have broken your vows a thousand times. 

Come, yet again, come, come.

 

― Rumi