Rumi Quotes
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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.
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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.
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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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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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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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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
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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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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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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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Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.
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You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !
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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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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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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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What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear. Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed".
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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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.
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The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
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There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
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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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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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She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
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Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.