Rumi Quotes
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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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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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
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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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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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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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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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Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.
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A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.
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Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
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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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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
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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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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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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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If i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow
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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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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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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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Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
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The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.