28. Oh, Rumi!

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You don’t have “bad” days and “good” days.
You don’t sometimes feel brilliant and sometimes dumb.
There’s no studying, no scholarly thinking having to do with love. but there is a great deal of plotting, and secret touching,
and nights you can’t remember at all.

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There is a light seed grain inside.
You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

I’m caught in this curling energy! Your hair!
Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane!

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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

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