Rumi Quotes
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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
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The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?
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This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
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Beauty surrounds us.
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Choose to love the one who does not die.
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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
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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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Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
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Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
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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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Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
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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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And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
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Love is not love that doesn’t love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars.