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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If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
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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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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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Do not seek water, get thirst.
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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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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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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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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
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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?