Rumi Quotes
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Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
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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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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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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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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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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 made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn?
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People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings And free your soul of jealousy, You and everyone around you Would fly up like doves.
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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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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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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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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 soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted
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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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The Ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.
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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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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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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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This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
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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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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.
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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.