Rumi Quotes
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Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
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She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
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There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same! Jesus was lost in his love for God. His donkey was drunk with barley.
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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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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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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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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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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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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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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
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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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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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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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Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
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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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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
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I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart.
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Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.