Rumi Quotes
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The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life.
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True beauty is a ray. That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.
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Friend, we're traveling together. Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken. I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out a grain that's way too big.
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Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.
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Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!
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You are the drop, and the ocean you are kindness, you are anger, you are sweetness, you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.
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Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
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My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober.
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
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Shine like the whole universe is yours.
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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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The wave of Atlast came along and caulked the body's ship; when the ship is wrecked once more, the turn of union and encounter will come.
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Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
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The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
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You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?
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When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.
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I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.
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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
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Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.
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First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.