Rumi Quotes
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Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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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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Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.
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Love is not love that doesn’t love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars.
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Woman is the light of God.
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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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I have spent my life dreaming of your face. Now, I have found it.
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Every story is us
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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!
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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
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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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Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.
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Choose to love the one who does not die.
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I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
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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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Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.
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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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Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
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Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
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I Lost Everything, I Have Found Myself.
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Heartsick, heartbroken – To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular That with it we probe the divine.