Rumi Quotes
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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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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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And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.
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Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.
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Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? Why would you refuse to give this love to anyone? Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim in the huge, fluid freedom.
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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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Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.
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Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.
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Do not seek water, get thirst.
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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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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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If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
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There's a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing. I'll meet you there.
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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
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We are the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the moon, while we sit here together.
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Die! Die! Die in this love! If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is known If you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.
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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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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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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you, As a fish out of water hears the waves . . . Come back. Come back. This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
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The middle path is the way to wisdom
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When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
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When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
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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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The world is a mountain. Whatever you say, it will echo it back to you. Don't say, "I sang nicely and the mountain echoed an ugly voice!" That is not possible. The human intellect is a place where hesitation and uncertainty take root. There is no way to overcome this hesitation except by falling in love.