Rumi Quotes
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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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A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?
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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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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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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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Love calls – everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?
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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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A heart filled with desire for sweetness and tender souls must not waste itself with unsavory matters.
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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.
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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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The soul is here for its own joy.
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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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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
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You hurt and have sharp desire, yet your presence is a healing calm.
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You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
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Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.