Rumi Quotes
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
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Every story is us
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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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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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Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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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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Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.
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O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
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I Lost Everything, I Have Found Myself.
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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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You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion
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Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.
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Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
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Choose to love the one who does not die.
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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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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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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
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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.
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A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
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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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There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.
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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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Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.