Rumi Quotes
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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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Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.
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You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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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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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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Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
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Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
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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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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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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.
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I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.
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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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A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
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Beauty surrounds us.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.
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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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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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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 real beloved is your beginning and your end. When you find that one, You'll no longer expect anything else
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Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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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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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.