Rumi Quotes
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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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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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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
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I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
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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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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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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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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.
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My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.
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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 world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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My Beloved Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul
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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.