Rumi Quotes
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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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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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You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
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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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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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God is the only Friend for the Soul on the Way to God.
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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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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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 garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
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Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
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I have spent my life dreaming of your face. Now, I have found it.
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Woman is the light of God.
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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.