Rumi Quotes
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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
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If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
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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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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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We watch a sunlight dust dance, and we try to be that lively, but nobody knows what music those particles hear. Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to. Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
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You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
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The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.
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Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.
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My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
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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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God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
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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?