Rumi Quotes
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Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
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Love is the religion, and the universe is the book.
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The pathless path opens whenever you genuinely say, There is no reality but God. There is only God.
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Let silence take you to the core of life.
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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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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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Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
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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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You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
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Love is not love that doesn’t love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars.
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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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Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
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There are no edges to my loving now.
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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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The soul is here for its own joy.
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When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
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Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
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You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane
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Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!
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Don't flounder in the preambles of the past Wounded with regrets; don't let autumnal Nostalgia blind you to the sounds and scents Of the present's Spring; you're a native of The pellucid moment, make it infinite beyond The curving snake of passing time and space. Learn to die in the infinitely elusive moment.