Rumi Quotes
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There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.
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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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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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Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.
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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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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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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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The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
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We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.
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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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It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
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Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
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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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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
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A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
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If i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow
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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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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
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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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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
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God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
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Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.
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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.