Rumi Quotes
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
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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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The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
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This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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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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Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.
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Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.
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There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
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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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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.
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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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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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There's a path from me to you I'm constantly looking for, so I try to keep clear and still as water does with the moon.
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Beauty surrounds us.
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
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Choose to love the one who does not die.
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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.
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On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You’ve written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing.
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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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There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.