Rumi Quotes
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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
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Make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more separation of you and your home. God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive
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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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Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
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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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There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.
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A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.
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Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
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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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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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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.
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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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The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
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Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
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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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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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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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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
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The soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
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Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.
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I see my beauty in you.
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The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.