Rumi Quotes
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
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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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Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will never lead you astray.
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The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
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You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.
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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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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted
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My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober.
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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Come, come, whoever you are, come. Infidel, idolator, Wanderer, fire-worshipper, it doesn't matter, come. Ours is not a convent of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, Come, come again.
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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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Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.
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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
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Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.
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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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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice. I am scrap wood thrown in your fire, and quickly reduced to smoke.