Rumi Quotes
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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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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
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If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.
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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.
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There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same! Jesus was lost in his love for God. His donkey was drunk with barley.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
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Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
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Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
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Be suspicious of what you want.
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the inner pull of what you really love.
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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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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.
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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
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If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
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It's your road, and yours alone. others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
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You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.