Rumi Quotes
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When you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
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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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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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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.
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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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Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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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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It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
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Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
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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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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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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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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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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
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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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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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You are not a drop in a ocean You are entire ocean in a drop
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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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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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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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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.