Rumi Quotes
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God is the only Friend for the Soul on the Way to God.
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
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This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
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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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O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
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Love is the religion, and the universe is the book.
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For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
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I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
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The gates made of light swing open. You see in.
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My sweet heart, you have aroused my passion, your touch has filled me with desire, I am no longer separate from you, these are precious moments, I beseech you, don’t let me wait.
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
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If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither; Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes. No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life.
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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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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
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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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The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
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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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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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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.
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Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.