Rumi Quotes
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When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us. There’s no place like that anywhere in the world.
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This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.
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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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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.
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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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The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the 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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Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.
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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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Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people.
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Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.
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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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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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Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.
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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
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My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
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You are not a drop in a ocean You are entire ocean in a drop
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I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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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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Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.
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Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
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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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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.