Rumi Quotes
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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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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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I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved
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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 ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
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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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The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
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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.
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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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Only Love can explain itself.
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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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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
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The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.
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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 wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
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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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Each night the moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars
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Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
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Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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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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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.