Rumi Quotes
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
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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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A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
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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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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
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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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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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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's ther.
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Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
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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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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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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
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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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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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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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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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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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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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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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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!