Rumi Quotes
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The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.
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The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
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My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.
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I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life.
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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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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
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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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Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
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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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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through 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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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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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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Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
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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.