Rumi Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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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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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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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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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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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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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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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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Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
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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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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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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 be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!