Rumi Quotes
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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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I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.
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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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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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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.
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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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You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.
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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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She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
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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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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!
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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.
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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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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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I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart.
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Love is the bridge between you and everything.
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O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you
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You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !
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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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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice