Rumi Quotes
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When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us. There’s no place like that anywhere in the world.
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The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
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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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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
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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 are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same! Jesus was lost in his love for God. His donkey was drunk with barley.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
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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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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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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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Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?
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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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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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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
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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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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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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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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 are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.