Rumi Quotes
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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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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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My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
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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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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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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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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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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
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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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This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.
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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
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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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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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Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?
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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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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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Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half–heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
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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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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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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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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.