Rumi Quotes
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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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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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Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted
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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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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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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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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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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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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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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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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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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.