Rumi Quotes
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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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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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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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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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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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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond
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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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Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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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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What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
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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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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart. You know what's on my mind, you've heard my thoughts. I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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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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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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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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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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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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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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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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When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us. There’s no place like that anywhere in the world.