Rumi Quotes
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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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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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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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There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
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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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God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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If i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow
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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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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
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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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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
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Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
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Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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My Beloved Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
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Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
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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!
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This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.
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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.