Rumi Quotes
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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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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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Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
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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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Beauty surrounds us.
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Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
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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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This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
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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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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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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
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I am so small I can barely be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.
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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 soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
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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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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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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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Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.
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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.