Rumi Quotes
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My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
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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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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
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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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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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This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
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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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Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
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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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Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.
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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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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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You are my shams.
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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Beauty surrounds us.
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
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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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Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.
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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
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The real beloved is your beginning and your end. When you find that one, You'll no longer expect anything else
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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.