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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If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
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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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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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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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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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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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Do not seek water, get thirst.
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There's a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing. I'll meet you there.
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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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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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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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Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
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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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I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.
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Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.
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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
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When I am with you, everything is prayer.
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Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
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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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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
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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.