Rumi Quotes
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings And free your soul of jealousy, You and everyone around you Would fly up like doves.
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
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We watch a sunlight dust dance, and we try to be that lively, but nobody knows what music those particles hear. Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to. Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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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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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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Love calls – everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?
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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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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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Shine like the whole universe is yours.
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The soul is here for its own joy.
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.
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Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
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If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.
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Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?
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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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Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
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You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.
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Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.