Rumi Quotes
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
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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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Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!
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The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
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Your misconceptions veil the holy. The Princess is naked beneath the surface of every form. Your boredom would vanish if you had more of a clue about the Reality I know.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
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There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
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Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.
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My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
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Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.
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You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion
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Whatever I was looking for Was always you
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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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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Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
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Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
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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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Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half–heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
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This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
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I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.