Rumi Quotes
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My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.
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Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world.
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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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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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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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
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Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.
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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 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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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.
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I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
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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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If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither; Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes. No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life.
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There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. and the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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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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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.
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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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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
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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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Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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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!