Rumi Quotes
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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom
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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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Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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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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Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
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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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The Ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.
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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
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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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The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
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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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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.
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This world hurts my head with its answers. I would burn if I had a choice.
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The pathless path opens whenever you genuinely say, There is no reality but God. There is only God.
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Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!
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Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
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Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
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The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
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That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again
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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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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.