Rumi Quotes
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That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again
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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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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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This world hurts my head with its answers. I would burn if I had a choice.
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My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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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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The pathless path opens whenever you genuinely say, There is no reality but God. There is only God.
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Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
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You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
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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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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
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Love is the bridge between you and everything.
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Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
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Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!
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Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.
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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.
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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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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.
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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.
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Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.