Rumi Quotes
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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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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
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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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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
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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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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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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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When you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
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I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case… Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets.
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people.
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Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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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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You are not a drop in a ocean You are entire ocean in a drop
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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
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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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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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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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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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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.