Rumi Quotes
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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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You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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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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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
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The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
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When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
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Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
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Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
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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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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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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
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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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Each night the moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars
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My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?
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Whatever I was looking for Was always you
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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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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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Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
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Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.
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You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you
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YOU ARE SUCH THAT BESIDES THIS (PHYSICAL) BODY YOU HAVE ANOTHER (ASTRAL) BODY. DO NOT THEREFORE BE AFRAID OF GETTING OUT OF THE MORTAL FRAME.
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It's your road, and yours alone. others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.