Rumi Quotes
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
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Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.
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There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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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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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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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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Love is not love that doesn’t love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars.
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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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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
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There are no edges to my loving now.
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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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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
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All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.
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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
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There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
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When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.
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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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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 and the light of the stars come through me.