Rumi Quotes
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
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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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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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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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You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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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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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's ther.
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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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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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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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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
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God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive
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Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
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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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Love is the bridge between you and everything.
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What sort of person says that he or she wants to be polished and pure, then complains about being handled roughly?
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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.