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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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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There's a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing. I'll meet you there.
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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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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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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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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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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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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
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Do not seek water, get thirst.
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The middle path is the way to wisdom
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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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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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I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
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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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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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Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.
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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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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 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.
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I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea.
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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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Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.