Rumi Quotes
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When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.
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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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You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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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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Each night the moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars
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Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
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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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This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
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Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night
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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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Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself
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Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.
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Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. You will not be led astray.
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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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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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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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A heart filled with desire for sweetness and tender souls must not waste itself with unsavory matters.
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I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
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Let silence take you to the core of life.
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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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There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
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Wake up: This world that you dream holds nothing to fear.