Rumi Quotes
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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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Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
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Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
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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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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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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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Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
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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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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.
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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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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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Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
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Try something different. Surrender.
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With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face.
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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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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
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I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
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You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
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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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Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.