Rumi Quotes
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
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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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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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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
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What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear. Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed".
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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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The cure for the pain is in the pain.
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
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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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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's ther.
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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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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
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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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Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.