Rumi Quotes
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
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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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Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.
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The cure for the pain is in the pain.
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You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
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Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.
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Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
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There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.
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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
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Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
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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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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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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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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
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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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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
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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.