Rumi Quotes
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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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There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.
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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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Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
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Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.
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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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Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
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Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
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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.
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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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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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Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
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Try something different. Surrender.
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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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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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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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Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.
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Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
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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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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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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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You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
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I see my beauty in you.