Rumi Quotes
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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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Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.
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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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Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.
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Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
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Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
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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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The gates made of light swing open. You see in.
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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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Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
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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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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
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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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You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
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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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But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke?
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People want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain
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I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
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The cure for pain is in the pain.
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For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
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Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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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.