Rumi Quotes
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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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Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
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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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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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You are my shams.
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Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
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Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
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People want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain
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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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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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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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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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I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
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The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
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I see my beauty in you.
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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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Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
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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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If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.
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I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
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Every part of you has a secret language. Your hands and your feet say what you have done. Every need brings in what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.