Rumi Quotes
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
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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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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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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
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And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.
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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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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.
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The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
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Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
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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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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
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With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?
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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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Beauty surrounds us.
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.
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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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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.