Rumi Quotes
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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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Let yourself be silently drawn by the inner pull of what you really love.
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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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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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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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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
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Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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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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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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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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Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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Be suspicious of what you want.
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Whatever I was looking for Was always you
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We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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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.
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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
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You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
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Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself
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You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion