Rumi Quotes
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Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
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Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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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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The cure for pain is in the pain.
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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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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
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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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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
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Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. You will not be led astray.
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Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.
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The universe and the light of the stars come through 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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This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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Give your weakness to one who helps.
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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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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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Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
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You are my shams.
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Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
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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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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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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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Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.