Rumi Quotes
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
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come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
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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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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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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
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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 Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
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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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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
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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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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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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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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
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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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My spirit saw how dull and down I was and came and sat laughing on my bed. Holding my brow, "Sweetheart, I can't bear to see you like this!
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Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.
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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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Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
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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.