Rumi Quotes
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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
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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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If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither; Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes. No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life.
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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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When you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
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The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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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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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
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Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.
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There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. and the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
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Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
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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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Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people.
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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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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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If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
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My sweet heart, you have aroused my passion, your touch has filled me with desire, I am no longer separate from you, these are precious moments, I beseech you, don’t let me wait.
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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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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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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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Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.
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I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!