Rumi Quotes
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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
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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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My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.
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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
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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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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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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
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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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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
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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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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 heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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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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In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.
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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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Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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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 fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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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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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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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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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.