Rumi Quotes
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice
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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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It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
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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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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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The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
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come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
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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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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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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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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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I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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Love calls – everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
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You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
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We watch a sunlight dust dance, and we try to be that lively, but nobody knows what music those particles hear. Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to. Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.
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If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.
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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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I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case… Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets.
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?