Rumi Quotes
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This moment is all there is.
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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.
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Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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Give your weakness to one who helps.
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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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Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
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Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
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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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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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All religions. All this singing. One sone. Peace be with you.
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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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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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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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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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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
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If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.
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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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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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There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.
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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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Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
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In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances