Rumi Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
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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 am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice
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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.
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You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
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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
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
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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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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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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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Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
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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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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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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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I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart.
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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
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Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
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Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!