Rumi Quotes
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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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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 flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of 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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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will never lead you astray.
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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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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.
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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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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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Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.
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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 have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing
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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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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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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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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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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
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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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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked