Rumi Quotes
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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom
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Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you, in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you, in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.
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Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
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Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
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My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.
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We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.
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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
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Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
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God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
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You hurt and have sharp desire, yet your presence is a healing calm.
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My spirit saw how dull and down I was and came and sat laughing on my bed. Holding my brow, "Sweetheart, I can't bear to see you like this!
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You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
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Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.
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Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.
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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.
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Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.