Rumi Quotes
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Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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Friend, we're traveling together. Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken. I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out a grain that's way too big.
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
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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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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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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.
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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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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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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life.
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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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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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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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The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
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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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What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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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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I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.