Rumi Quotes
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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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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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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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Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
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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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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice. I am scrap wood thrown in your fire, and quickly reduced to smoke.
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It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
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Love is the bridge between you and everything.
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The Ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.
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A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.
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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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You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.
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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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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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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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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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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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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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Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
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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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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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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.