Rumi Quotes
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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
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Heartsick, heartbroken – To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular That with it we probe the divine.
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Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
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You hurt and have sharp desire, yet your presence is a healing calm.
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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
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You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings
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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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There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
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Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
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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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You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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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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Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
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Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
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My sweet heart, you have aroused my passion, your touch has filled me with desire, I am no longer separate from you, these are precious moments, I beseech you, don’t let me wait.