Rumi Quotes
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In fact, my soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you, We hide in each other.
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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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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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I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
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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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Do not seek water, get thirst.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
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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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There's a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing. I'll meet you there.
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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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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
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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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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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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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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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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of 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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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.