Rumi Quotes
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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
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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.
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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
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You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?
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Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.
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When someone beats a rug with a stick, he is not beating the rug – his aim is to get rid of the dust. Your inward is full of dust from the veil of ‘I’-ness, and that dust will not leave all at once. With every cruelty and every blow, it departs little by little from the heart’s face, sometimes in sleep and sometimes in wakefulness.
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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world.
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All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
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My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
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Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will never lead you astray.
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We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.
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God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.
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Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.