Rumi Quotes
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You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
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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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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's ther.
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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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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
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You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.
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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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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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Love calls – everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?
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Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
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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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Be suspicious of what you want.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the inner pull of what you really love.
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I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
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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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The soul is here for its own joy.
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
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The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
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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.