Rumi Quotes
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
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You hurt and have sharp desire, yet your presence is a healing calm.
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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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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To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
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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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God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
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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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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's ther.
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.
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A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?
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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
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Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you, in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you, in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
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You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.