Rumi Quotes
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Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.
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Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.
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When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.
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Dance until you shatter yourself.
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Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow, Oh time, without me, do not go. ...Oh, you cannot go, without me.
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Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
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I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless?
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There's a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing. I'll meet you there.
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Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence
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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
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In the silence of love you will find the spark of life.
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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
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Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
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Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or power over an entire nation? A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
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Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.
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What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?
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On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.
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With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.
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I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.
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Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
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The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.