Rumi Quotes
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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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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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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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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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The Ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.
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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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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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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
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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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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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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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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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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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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
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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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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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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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Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love.
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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.