Rumi Quotes
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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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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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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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Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
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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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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.
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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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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 result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
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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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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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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul, practice some song, or something, through me!
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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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We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
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Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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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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Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.
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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises