Rumi Quotes
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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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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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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
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Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.
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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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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
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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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It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
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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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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
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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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Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
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I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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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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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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You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.
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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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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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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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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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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