Rumi Quotes
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice
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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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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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What sort of person says that he or she wants to be polished and pure, then complains about being handled roughly?
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I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
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What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear. Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed".
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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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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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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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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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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
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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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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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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
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Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
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It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
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Don’t hand me another glass of wine. Pour it in my mouth. I’ve lost the way to my mouth.
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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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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.