Rumi Quotes
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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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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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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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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
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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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Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
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What sort of person says that he or she wants to be polished and pure, then complains about being handled roughly?
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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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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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It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
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Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.
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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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Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
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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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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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My sweet heart, you have aroused my passion, your touch has filled me with desire, I am no longer separate from you, these are precious moments, I beseech you, don’t let me wait.
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Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.