Rumi Quotes
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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.
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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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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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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane
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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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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom
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Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
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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.
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With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?
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That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again
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Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
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Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
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I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
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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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Each night the moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars
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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
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I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.