Rumi Quotes
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Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
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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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Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.
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The cure for the pain is in the pain.
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
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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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Into this new love, die your way begins on the other side become the sky take an axe to the prison wall, escape walk out like someone suddenly born into color do it now.
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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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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
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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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Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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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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Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
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Beauty surrounds us.
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Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
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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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My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
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Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.