Rumi Quotes
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Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.
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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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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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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.
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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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If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither; Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes. No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life.
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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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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?
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This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
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Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
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Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.
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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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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
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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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let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
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Wake up: This world that you dream holds nothing to fear.