Rumi

"Give me ecstasy, give me naked wonder, O my Creator!

Give birth to the Beloved in me, and let this lover die.

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love."

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  There is no salvation for the soul
    But to fall in Love.
    It has to creep and crawl
    Among 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.

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Tagore

 

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and found that
life was service.
I acted and, beheld,
service was joy."

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Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything
but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself,
to ideas which are larger than his individual life,
the idea of his country,
of humanity,
of God.

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"My song has put off her adornments. She has no pride of dress and decoration. Ornaments would mar our union; they would come between thee and me; their jingling would drown thy whispers."

"My poet's vanity dies in shame before thy sight. O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music."

You were hidden in my being; I couldn't see you
I opened my eyes to the world outside; didn't look inside
You remained as the joy in my plays;

In playing I forgot you; my days gone by carelessly
Lying hidden deep within my heart,

you gave me the tune for my songs of delight and pain;
I did not sing your song!

- A song by Tagore