Rumi Quotes
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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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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
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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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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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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted
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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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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.
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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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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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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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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.
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Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.
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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 you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
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The Ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.
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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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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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Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.