Rumi Quotes
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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
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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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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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When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.
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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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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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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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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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Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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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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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.
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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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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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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
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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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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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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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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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When you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
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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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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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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.