Rumi Quotes
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Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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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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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
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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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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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There are no edges to my loving now.
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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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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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God is the only Friend for the Soul on the Way to God.
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
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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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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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You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
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The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
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Your boundaries are your quest.
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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
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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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I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
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Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.