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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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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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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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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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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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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If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
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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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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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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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Do not seek water, get thirst.
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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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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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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
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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 critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.
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The middle path is the way to wisdom
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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.