Rumi Quotes
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Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half–heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
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The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.
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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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If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's ther.
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I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.
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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
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If i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow
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Don’t hand me another glass of wine. Pour it in my mouth. I’ve lost the way to my mouth.
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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
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Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
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Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself
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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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Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!
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Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
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Nothing, indeed, is more symptomatic of our modern lack of logic than our consciousness of the futility of mere material affluence in itself, and at the same time our pathetic belief that the salvation of the “poor” is to lift them into affluence!
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice