Rumi Quotes
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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.
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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
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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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Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.
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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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I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life.
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The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
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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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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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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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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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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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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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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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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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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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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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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?