Rumi Quotes
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My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
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There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
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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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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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Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you, in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you, in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
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Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love.
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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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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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond
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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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Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.
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If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
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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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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.