Rumi Quotes
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You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
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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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Wake up: This world that you dream holds nothing to fear.
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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.
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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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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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If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?
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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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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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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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God is the only Friend for the Soul on the Way to God.
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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
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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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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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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
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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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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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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
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Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
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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!