Rumi Quotes
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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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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Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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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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I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?
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Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
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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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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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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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Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
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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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Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.
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What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
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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 am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty, and wish to see you with a hundred eyes. I am in the house of mercy and my heart is a place of prayer.
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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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Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.
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My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.
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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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You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.