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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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
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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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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
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The Ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.
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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
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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 grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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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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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
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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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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 you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.