Rumi Quotes
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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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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
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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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Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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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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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
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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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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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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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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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If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
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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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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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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 garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
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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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Love is the religion, and the universe is the book.
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Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.