Rumi Quotes
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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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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
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Try something different. Surrender.
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Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
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Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.
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But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke?
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Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
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All religions. All this singing. One sone. Peace be with you.
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There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.
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Your boundaries are your quest.
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Come to the orchard in Spring. There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers. If you do not come, these do not matter. If you do come, these do not matter.
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Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
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This moment is all there is.
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Let yourself becoming living poetry
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.
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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.
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There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. and the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
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There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.
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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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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.