Rumi Quotes
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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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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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Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
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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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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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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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And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's ther.
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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
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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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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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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
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All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
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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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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again
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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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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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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!