Rumi Quotes
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Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.
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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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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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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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Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
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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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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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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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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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The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
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All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
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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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Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice
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Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
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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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A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
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The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.