Rumi Quotes
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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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You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
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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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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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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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This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
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This world hurts my head with its answers. I would burn if I had a choice.
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You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
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Each night the moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars
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Only Love can explain itself.
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Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.
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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
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The pathless path opens whenever you genuinely say, There is no reality but God. There is only God.
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
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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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And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
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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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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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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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That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again
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To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.