Rumi Quotes
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I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
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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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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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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
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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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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
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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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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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Give your weakness to one who helps.
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Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
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Look for the answer inside your question.
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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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In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances
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Advice doesn't help lovers! They're not the kind of mountain stream you can build a dam across.
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This moment is all there is.
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All religions. All this singing. One sone. Peace be with 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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Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
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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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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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There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.