Rumi Quotes
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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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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Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
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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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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
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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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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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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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All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.
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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 cure for the pain is in the pain.
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
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If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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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 the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.
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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
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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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You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!
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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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Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
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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?