Rumi Quotes
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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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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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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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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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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.
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What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear. Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed".
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Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.
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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 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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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
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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 heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.
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What sort of person says that he or she wants to be polished and pure, then complains about being handled roughly?
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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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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice
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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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Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself
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My Beloved Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.