Rumi Quotes
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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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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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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
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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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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 pathless path opens whenever you genuinely say, There is no reality but God. There is only God.
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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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I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.
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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 truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
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On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
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Love is the bridge between you and everything.
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A heart filled with desire for sweetness and tender souls must not waste itself with unsavory matters.
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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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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Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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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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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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Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.