Rumi Quotes
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Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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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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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
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Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
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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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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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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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We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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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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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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When you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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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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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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My sweet heart, you have aroused my passion, your touch has filled me with desire, I am no longer separate from you, these are precious moments, I beseech you, don’t let me wait.
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If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
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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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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!
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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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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.