Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
— Rumi Medieval

Sufi poet and mystic

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The Essential Rumi

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13th Century

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Strange & Unusual

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