Rumi Quotes
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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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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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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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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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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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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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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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We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.
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The cure for the pain is in the pain.
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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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Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
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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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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
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In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.
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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 rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
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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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Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.
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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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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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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.