Rumi Quotes
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I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.
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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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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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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 basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
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Your boundaries are your quest.
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Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
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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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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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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
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The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
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Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
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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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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
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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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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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This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
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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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Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.
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And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.
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Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.