Rumi Quotes
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond
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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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Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people.
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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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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
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When you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
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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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You are not a drop in a ocean You are entire ocean in a drop
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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
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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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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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You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart. You know what's on my mind, you've heard my thoughts. I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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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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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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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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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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Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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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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God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive
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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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Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.