Rumi Quotes
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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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Wake up: This world that you dream holds nothing to fear.
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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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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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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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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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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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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 soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
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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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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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God is the only Friend for the Soul on the Way to God.
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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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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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Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.
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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.
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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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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.