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If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You.
Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You.
No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ...
Anything I am entirely is You! -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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I see so deeply within myself
Not needing my eyes.
I can see everything clearly!
Why would I want to bother my eyes again???
Now that I see the world ...
through His eyes. -- Rumi
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Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see. -- Rumi
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There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty
A place where every breath
carves your image
in my soul.
[465, translated by Jonathan Star, - In the Arms of the Beloved] -- Rumi
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. -- Rumi
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Close the language-door,
and open the love-window -- Rumi
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Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other. -- Rumi
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To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there." -- Rumi
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Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do? -- Rumi
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We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear -- Rumi
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There's a field somewhere
beyond all doubt and wrong doing.
I'll meet you there. -- Rumi
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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. -- Rumi
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What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. -- Rumi
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Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence.
Stay there until you see you're looking at the light
with infinite eyes. -- Rumi
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I said, "I just want to know you and then disappear."
She said, "Knowing me does not mean dying. -- Rumi
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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere,
cloudcover thick. I try to stay
just above the surface, yet I'm already under
and living within the ocean. -- Rumi
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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 -- Rumi
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Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.
Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love. -- Rumi
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The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit. -- Rumi
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Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
Laughter always follow tears
Blessed are those who understand
Life blossoms wherever water flows
Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown -- Rumi
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Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. -- Rumi
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Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That. -- Rumi
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I am sunlight slicing the dark. -- Rumi
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Looking at my life
I see that only Love
Has been my soul's companion
From deep inside
My soul cries out:
Do not wait, surrender
For the sake of Love. -- Rumi
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There's nothing left of me.
I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight. -- Rumi
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A woman is a beam of the divine light
she is not the being whom sensual
desire takes as it's object
she is a creator it should be said
she is not a creature
she is infinite love
can find all this -- Rumi
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. -- Rumi
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If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing. -- Rumi
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I will whisper secrets in your ears,
just nod yes and be silent.
A soul moon appeared in the path of my heart.
How precious is this journey -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open! -- Rumi
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Whoever acts with respect will get respect. -- Rumi
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You are the drop,and the ocean
you are kindness,you are anger,
you are sweetness,you are poison.
Do not make me more disheartened.
you are the chamber of the sun,
you are the abode of venus,
you are the garden of all hope.
Oh, Beloved, let me enter. -- Rumi
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I am weary of personal worrying,
in love with the art of madness. -- Rumi
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All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness
Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you.
All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health,
Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you ... -- Rumi
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You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.
... Oh, you cannot go, without me. -- Rumi
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You've so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don't ask how. Then you come near. "Do not ... " I say, and "Do not ... ," you answer. Don't ask why this delights me. -- Rumi
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My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world. -- Rumi
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Choose a master, for without him this journey is full of tribulations, fears, and dangers. With no escort, you would be lost on a road you would have already taken. Do not travel alone on the Path. -- Rumi
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The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same. -- Rumi
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Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. -- Rumi
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You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood. -- Rumi
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Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious. -- Rumi
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Nearness to God is common to us all,
Because we're all created and sustained by God,
But only the authentically noble
Possess and live that nearness
That's a constant upswelling passion of love. -- Rumi
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What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned ... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest ... What still pulls on your soul? -- Rumi
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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 -- Rumi
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The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread. -- Rumi
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No more holding back.
Be reckless.
Tell your Love to everybody. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Come on sweetheart
let's adore one another
before there is no more
of you and me -- Rumi
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Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean. -- Rumi
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As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment.
If he wanted us to work, after all,
He would not have created this wine.
With a skinfull of this, Sir,
would you rush out to commit economics? -- Rumi
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Wisdom is like the rain.
It's supply is unlimited, but it comes down according to what the occasion requires -
in winter and spring, in summer and autumn,
always in due measure, more or less,
but the source of that rain is the oceans itself, which has no limits. -- Rumi
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Someone asks me, What is love?
Do not look for an explanation.
Dissolve into me, and you will know
when it calls. Respond.
Walk out as a lion, as a rose.
Inhale autumn, long for spring. -- Rumi
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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. -- Rumi
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What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive. -- Rumi
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If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide. -- Rumi
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LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet. -- Rumi
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We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right ...
That flawed utterance is dearer to God! -- Rumi
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Bear the pain of longing silently, my heart
for this is the cure.
The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires
and surrender the ego. -- Rumi
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Every soul becomes gold
when touched by the Beloved. -- Rumi
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Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work. -- Rumi
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The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter. -- Rumi
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The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me. -- Rumi
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Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets
The moon sets
But they are not gone. -- Rumi
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Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul. -- Rumi
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Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the center of their being (their heart). These sanctified individuals are said to be Possessors of the Heart. -- Rumi
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Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. -- Rumi
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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. -- Rumi
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Desire
I desire you
more than food
and drink
My body
my senses
my mind
hunger for your taste
I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world
I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you -- Rumi
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Except for Love, nothing you see will remain forever. -- Rumi
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Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that -- Rumi
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country. -- Rumi
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The Inspiration You Seek
Is Already Within You.
Be Silent And Listen. -- Rumi
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Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself. -- Rumi
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There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside. -- Rumi
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Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it. -- Rumi
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You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it. -- Rumi
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Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. -- Rumi
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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. -- Rumi
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This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain. -- Rumi
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I've been looking for a long, long time,
for this thing called love,
I've ridden comets across the sky,
and I've looked below and above.
Then one day I looked inside myself,
and this is what I found,
A golden sun residing there,
beaming forth God's light and sound. -- Rumi
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There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart. -- Rumi
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You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin -- Rumi
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I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars. -- Rumi
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A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King's wrist
when it hears the drum beating "Return."
A Sufi, shimmering with light,
wants to dance like a sunbeam
when darkness surrounds him. -- Rumi
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Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing. -- Rumi
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You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love. -- Rumi
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Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. -- Rumi
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The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence. -- Rumi
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Disharmony prevails when you confuse
Lust with LOVE, while the distance
between the two is endless! -- Rumi
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However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations ... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. -- Rumi
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Here is a relationship booster
that is guaranteed to
work:
Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid
make your eyes light up as if you
just heard something
brilliant. -- Rumi
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The woman
has great power. Se can tie knots in your chest that only God's breathing loosens. Don't
take her appeal lightly. -- Rumi
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You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange. -- Rumi
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Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought. -- Rumi
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You transform all those who are touched by You. -- Rumi
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I will be waiting here ... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake! -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking is His seeking
And our words are His words ...
We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask:
'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?' -- Rumi
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I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves. -- Rumi
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Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way. -- Rumi
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Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment. -- Rumi
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Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold. -- Rumi
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Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home.
While you look for trinkets
The treasure house awaits you in your own being. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love. -- Rumi
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Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits. -- Rumi
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If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn't slumber so deeply in that house of clay. Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and always have been. Didn't you know? -- Rumi
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And if every way is closed before you. The secret one will show a secret path no other eyes have seen. -- Rumi
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The wave of Atlast came along and caulked the body's ship; when the ship is wrecked once more, the turn of union and encounter will come. -- Rumi
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We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty. -- Rumi
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If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. -- Rumi
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Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water. -- Rumi
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I walk into a huge pasture. I nurse the milk of millennia. -- Rumi
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Thirst drove me down to the water
where I drank the moon's reflection. -- Rumi
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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon. -- Rumi
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When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon. -- Rumi
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There's a path from me to you
I'm constantly looking for,
so I try to keep clear and still
as water does with the moon. -- Rumi
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Lamps are different, but light is the same. -- Rumi
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. -- Rumi
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To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child. -- Rumi
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Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving. -- Rumi
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A new moon teaches gradualness
and deliberation and how one gives birth
to oneself slowly. Patience with small details
makes perfect a large work, like the universe. -- Rumi
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The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross. -- Rumi
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You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion -- Rumi
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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. -- Rumi
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Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now. -- Rumi
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This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it. -- Rumi
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Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure. -- Rumi
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If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You. -- Rumi
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Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry roads to the shore. -- Rumi
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. -- Rumi
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There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. -- Rumi
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If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing! -- Rumi
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Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it. -- Rumi
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Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love -- Rumi
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God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart. -- Rumi
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You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing Your Praises
but stand mute
with the agony of wishing in my heart ! -- Rumi
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Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens. -- Rumi
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God (in His mercy) accepts false coin. -- Rumi
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Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity.
Go beyond your tangled thoughts and
find the splendor of paradise. -- Rumi
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All the world Loves You,
but You are nowhere to be found,
Hidden and yet ... completely obvious! -- Rumi
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If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither;
Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes.
No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead
So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life. -- Rumi
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This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple. -- Rumi
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Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key. -- Rumi
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Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships. -- Rumi
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You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance -- Rumi
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I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer. -- Rumi
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I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference -- Rumi
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I profess the religion of love,
Love is my religion and my faith.
My mother is love
My father is love
My prophet is love
My God is love
I am a child of love
I have come only to speak of love. -- Rumi
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What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence. -- Rumi
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Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale. -- Rumi
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Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition. -- Rumi
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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? -- Rumi
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With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean of God? -- Rumi
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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? -- Rumi
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I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things. -- Rumi
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You are more valuable than both heaven and earth.
What else can I say?
You don't know your own worth. -- Rumi
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Look what they've done to me;
I am disheveled, bewildered, confused.
Now please take my hand.
I am wandering about,
in awe and amazement of you.
Take my hand.
Everyone
has someone to take care for them.
But look at me: I have no one.
Take my hand -- Rumi
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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy. -- Rumi
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No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here. -- Rumi
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Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. -- Rumi
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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence,
you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is.
Where they come from never goes dry.
It is an always flowing spring. -- Rumi
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If you show patience
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water. -- Rumi
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The glowing jewel says,
"Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face comes from
the candle of my spirit.
Every jewel says to you, "Be not satisfied with my beauty, for the light in my face derives from the candle of my awareness! -- Rumi
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Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything. -- Rumi
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To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. -- Rumi
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Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. -- Rumi
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Argue not concerning God, ... re-examine all you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul ... . I -- Rumi
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Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them. -- Rumi
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Heart is sea,
language is shore.
Whatever sea includes,
will hit the shore. -- Rumi
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The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder. -- Rumi
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And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here. -- Rumi
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We talk about this and that. There's no rest except on these branching moments. -- Rumi
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Wake up:
This world that you dream holds nothing to fear. -- Rumi
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I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. -- Rumi
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One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand. -- Rumi
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The Heart is your Student,
For love is the only way we learn. -- Rumi
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God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God. -- Rumi
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If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself. -- Rumi
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Don't wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you. -- Rumi
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There is a sun within every person. -- Rumi
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I seem restless,
but am deeply at ease.
Branches tremble;
the roots are still. -- Rumi
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The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. -- Rumi
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Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game. -- Rumi
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Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad. -- Rumi
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The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please. -- Rumi
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When you are everywhere, you are nowhere
When you are somewhere, you are everywhere. -- Rumi
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Someone was saying yesterday, This world
began in time, but eternity will inherit it. -- Rumi
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The flower that does not smile
at the branches withers. -- Rumi
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My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. -- Rumi
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There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings. -- Rumi
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For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain. -- Rumi
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion? -- Rumi
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world. -- Rumi
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Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence. -- Rumi
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Whoever has Heart's doors wide open,
could see the Sun itself in every atom. -- Rumi
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Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open? -- Rumi
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Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. -- Rumi
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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. -- Rumi
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My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house. -- Rumi
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole. -- Rumi
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Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. -- Rumi
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself.
That's how I hold your voice.
I am scrap wood thrown in your fire,
and quickly reduced to smoke. -- Rumi
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Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure. -- Rumi
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I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence -- Rumi
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If the wind had taken me to you,
I would have held tight to the skirts of the wind.
I miss you so much that I would fly to you faster than a bird;
But how can a bird with a clipped wing fly -- Rumi
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Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. -- Rumi
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I love my friends
neither with my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case ...
Heart might stop.
Mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forgets. -- Rumi
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I love you neither with my heart
nor with my mind.
My heart might stop
my mind can forget.
I love you with
my soul because
my soul never stops
or forgets.
-Rumi -- Rumi
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Hear this if you can:
If you want to reach him
You have to go beyond yourself
And when you finally arrive at the land of absence
Be silent
Don't say a thing
Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there -- Rumi
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Though the words of the great saints appear in a hundred different forms, since God is one and the Way is one, how can their words be different? Though their teachings appear to contradict, their meaning is one. Separation exists in their outward form only; in inner purpose they all agree. -- Rumi
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On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You've written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing. -- Rumi
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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you ... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. -- Rumi
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There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust. -- Rumi
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There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself. -- Rumi
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Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. -- Rumi
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What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality. -- Rumi
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. -- Rumi
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My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way. -- Rumi
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If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you. -- Rumi
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Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate -- Rumi
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My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this? -- Rumi
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If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside of your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us. -- Rumi
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If I Separated Myself
From You ... I Would Turn
Entirely Thorn! -- Rumi
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Go my friend
bestow your love
even on your enemies
if you touch their hearts
what do you think will happen. -- Rumi
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. -- Rumi
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When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men. -- Rumi
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What is planted in each person's soul will sprout. -- Rumi
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Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness. -- Rumi
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play. -- Rumi
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There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. -- Rumi
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Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate? -- Rumi
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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? -- Rumi
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From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean. -- Rumi
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A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden. -- Rumi
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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill. -- Rumi
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Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I. -- Rumi
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Do not feel lonely,
the entire universe is inside you.
Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Set your life on fire.
Seek those who fan your flames. -- Rumi
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I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there. -- Rumi
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Die! Die! Die in this love!
If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed.
Die! Die! Don't fear the death of that which is known
If you die to the temporal, You will become timeless. -- Rumi
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When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon? -- Rumi
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Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need. -- Rumi
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Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor
Why talk of anything else? -- Rumi
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Because of your love I have broken with my past -- Rumi
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Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you.
Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon. -- Rumi
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Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover. -- Rumi
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Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise. -- Rumi
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Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one who becomes a servant of lovers
is really a fortunate sovereign.
Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love.
Love is a cloud that scatters pearls. -- Rumi
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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. -- Rumi
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You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever. -- Rumi
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Friend, we're traveling together.
Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you
one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken.
I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out
a grain that's way too big. -- Rumi
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Lose your soul in God's Love ...
I swear there is no other way ! -- Rumi
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Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life -- Rumi
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Yesterday is gone and took away its tale.
Today we must live a fresh story again. -- Rumi
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To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. -- Rumi
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Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity. -- Rumi
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Be clear and smiling for those who are glad to see you.
Someone who is not, let his way darken like a pen leaving a faltering ink trail. -- Rumi
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Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand? -- Rumi
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Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love,
if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you. -- Rumi
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The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret. -- Rumi
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The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful. -- Rumi
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Love cannot be described. It must be tasted. -- Rumi
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We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. -- Rumi
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Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun. -- Rumi
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Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state. -- Rumi
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Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence." -- Rumi
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Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. -- Rumi
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If the beloved is everywhere,
the lover is a veil,
but when living itself becomes
the Friend, lovers disappear. -- Rumi
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Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues. -- Rumi
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You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck. -- Rumi
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This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden. -- Rumi
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When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this? -- Rumi
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The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along. -- Rumi
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There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.
The hopers would feel slighted if they knew. -- Rumi
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The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world ... -- Rumi
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In the bazaar of herbs and potions Don't wander aimlessly, Find the shop with a potion That is sweet. -- Rumi
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The source of now is here. -- Rumi
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I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it. -- Rumi
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Hear from the heart wordless mysteries. -- Rumi
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You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open. -- Rumi
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. -- Rumi
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In this life many demolitions are actually renovations. -- Rumi
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A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another -- Rumi
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Reality is blocked by form and image. -- Rumi
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There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts. -- Rumi
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God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don't try to end it.
Be your note. -- Rumi
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We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect. -- Rumi
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Martyred plants from their shrouds. Their mouths -- Rumi
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There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling. -- Rumi
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From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for -- Rumi
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Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts
in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter. -- Rumi
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This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say. -- Rumi
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Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday. -- Rumi
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Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I. -- Rumi
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You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold. -- Rumi
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Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset -- Rumi
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I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; / But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world. -- Rumi
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Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses. -- Rumi
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They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone. -- Rumi
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I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life. -- Rumi
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Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming? -- Rumi
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But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue. -- Rumi
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The Ego is a veil between humans and God'."
"In prayer all are equal. -- Rumi
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There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere? -- Rumi
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Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside. -- Rumi
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Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors. -- Rumi
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There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music ... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should ... -- Rumi
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Every love outside of HIS love, is pain. -- Rumi
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns. -- Rumi
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When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine. -- Rumi
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Love is the instrument to unfold divine secrets ...
Love is the reign timeless, dimensionless ...
Lover is as distinct as the moon shining among stars on the sky.
Beloved is the sparkle in the heart of the Love. -- Rumi
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It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -
Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed. -- Rumi
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Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way. -- Rumi
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If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over. -- Rumi
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You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love -- Rumi
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In this earth,
in this immaculate field,
we shall not plant any seeds
except for compassion,
except for love. -- Rumi
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In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there? -- Rumi
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There is another language beyond language,
another place beyond heaven and hell.
Precious gems come from another mine,
the heart draws light from another source. -- Rumi
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What else can I say?
You will only hear
what you are ready to hear.
Don't nod your head,
Don't try to fool me
the truth of what you see
is written all over your face! -- Rumi
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Only union with you gives joy.
The rest if tearing down one building to put up another. -- Rumi
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Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul -- Rumi
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The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle. -- Rumi
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The way of love is not / a subtle argument. / The door there is devastation. / Birds make great sky-circles / of their freedom. / How do they learn it? / They fall, and falling, / they're given wings. -- Rumi
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Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. -- Rumi
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My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life. -- Rumi
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Be silent now. Say fewer and fewer praise poems. Let yourself become living poetry. -- Rumi
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There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light. -- Rumi
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The Law of Wonder rules my life at last,
... I burn each second of my life to Love
Each second of my life burns out in Love
In each leaping second Love lives afresh. -- Rumi
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One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of. -- Rumi
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From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. -- Rumi
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When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back! -- Rumi
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I am a bird of God's garden
and I do not belong to this dusty world
For a day or two they have put me here
in this cage of my own body
I did not come here of my own
I will not return of my own
to my own country. -- Rumi
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Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God. -- Rumi
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Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. -- Rumi
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Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power. -- Rumi
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They are the chosen ones
who have surrendered ...
Once they were particles of light
now they are the radiant sun! -- Rumi
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I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel.
Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away.
A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul.
A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly. -- Rumi
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The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love. -- Rumi
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I thought, "First I will know you,
then I will die."
He replied,
"Whoever knows Me never dies. -- Rumi
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Listen to presences inside poems,
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises. -- Rumi
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Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade. -- Rumi
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The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before. -- Rumi
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He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live. -- Rumi
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Living lacks joy without you
dying lacks joy without you
How can I clear my mind of care for you?
I cannot manage without you.
Whatever I say, my source,
reveals my strengths and faults
So please, be gracious!
and repeat with me:
I cannot manage without you. -- Rumi
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The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. -- Rumi
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Every step I take is a blessing. -- Rumi
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We have been secretly fed
from beyond space and time. That's why we look for something more than this. -- Rumi
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Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top. -- Rumi
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I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as an animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? -- Rumi
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To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life. -- Rumi
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When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured. -- Rumi
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Even when you tear its petals off one after another,
the rose keeps laughing and doesn't bend in pain.
"Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn?
It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh."
Whatever you lost through fate,
be certain that it saved you from pain. -- Rumi
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Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe -- Rumi
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Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER. -- Rumi
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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it
For the water has never feared the fire. -- Rumi
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We often need to be refreshed. -- Rumi
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Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull
into a cup for others to drink wine from.
In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man,
who doesn't know what he's about to do! -- Rumi
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A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain. -- Rumi
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Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love. -- Rumi
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The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone. -- Rumi
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When you seek Love
with all your Heart,
you shall find its echoes in the universe. -- Rumi
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I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I prefer to every idea of heaven: human friendship. -- Rumi
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I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things. -- Rumi
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You have been walking the water's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. -- Rumi
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You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours. -- Rumi
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You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry? -- Rumi
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Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul. -- Rumi
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart. -- Rumi
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I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing? -- Rumi
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Don't seek the water; get thirst. -- Rumi
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Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key ... -- Rumi
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There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable. -- Rumi
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Leave that which is not,
but appears to be. Seek that which is,
but is not apparent. -- Rumi
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I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU. -- Rumi
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Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants. -- Rumi
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If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart. -- Rumi
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If you yearn for holy felicity,
shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Since Love has made ruins of my heart
The sun must come and illumine them.
Such generosity has broken me with shame. -- Rumi
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The real beloved is your beginning and your end.
When you find that one,
you'll no longer expect anything else -- Rumi
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Prayer clears the mist
and brings back peace to the Soul ... -- Rumi
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Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace. -- Rumi
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. -- Rumi
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Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness. -- Rumi
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Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind.
When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one. -- Rumi
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Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth. -- Rumi
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What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Live in the opening where
there is no door to hide behind. -- Rumi
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You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. -- Rumi
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Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here. -- Rumi
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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 vow a hundred times.
Come, come again, come. -- Rumi
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Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water. -- Rumi
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When love is not accepted move on;
when love is not appreciated walk away;
hopefully time will teach what real, true love is. -- Rumi
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The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one. -- Rumi
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Live in the nowhere that you come from
even though you have got an address Here. -- Rumi
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Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care! -- Rumi
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Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds. -- Rumi
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Don't ask me about prayer rocks
Anyplace I put my head is a prayer rock.
Don't talk of direction
All six directions face Him.
Gardens, flames, nightingale,
whirling dance, and brotherhood
Throw all these away
and throw yourself into His love. -- Rumi
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I am the call of love ...
Can you hear me in the full grasses, in the scented winds ?
It is I who makes the garden smile. -- Rumi
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I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it. -- Rumi
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There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. -- Rumi
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You hurt and have sharp desire,
yet your presence is a healing calm. -- Rumi
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I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still! -- Rumi
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There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body. -- Rumi
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Excuse my wandering.
How can one be orderly with this?
It's like counting leaves in a garden,
along with the song-notes of partridges,
and crows.
Sometimes organization
and computation become absurd. -- Rumi
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With love you don't bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face. -- Rumi
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Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face. -- Rumi
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Look as long as you can at the friend you love,
no matter whether that friend is moving away from you
or coming back toward you. -- Rumi
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My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ;
'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call. -- Rumi
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. -- Rumi
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Come, come, whoever you are, come.
Infidel, idolator, Wanderer, fire-worshipper, it doesn't matter, come.
Ours is not a convent of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,
Come, come again. -- Rumi
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We are all the same ... all the same ...
longing to find our way back ...
back to the One ... back to the Only One! -- Rumi
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Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free. -- Rumi
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There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. -- Rumi
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A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music. -- Rumi
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Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul. -- Rumi
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He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the directionless ... -- Rumi
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Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets. -- Rumi
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I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy. -- Rumi
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You cannot hide love
Love will get on its way
To the heart of someone you love
Far or near, it goes home
To where it belongs
To the heart of lovers -- Rumi
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Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic -- Rumi
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God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion ! -- Rumi
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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. -- Rumi
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Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands. -- Rumi
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Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. -- Rumi
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There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself. -- Rumi
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Shams is a trumpet note of light
that starts the atoms spinning,
a wind that comes at dawn
tasting of bread and salt.
Move to the edge and over. Fly with the wings
he gives, and if you get tired, lie down,
but keep opening inside your soul. -- Rumi
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The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love. -- Rumi
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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! -- Rumi
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Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come! -- Rumi
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That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights. -- Rumi
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Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows. -- Rumi
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. -- Rumi
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A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you. -- Rumi
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The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. -- Rumi
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Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. -- Rumi
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Walk to the well.
Turn as the earth and the moon turn,
circling what they love.
Whatever circles comes from the center. -- Rumi
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If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back. -- Rumi
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When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles. -- Rumi
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It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety. -- Rumi
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Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven.
It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety. -- Rumi
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I found the Divine within my Heart. -- Rumi
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My religion is to be alive from LOVE. -- Rumi
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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. -- Rumi
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The wailing of broken hearts
is the doorway to God. -- Rumi
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A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute -- Rumi
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Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. -- Rumi
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I could spend a lifetime
delighting in the image of the Friend
But once my heart beholds the Friend
then the pain becomes more precious
than a thousand delights. -- Rumi
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Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? -- Rumi
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Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. -- Rumi
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Your heart mirrors not His love,
Rusty with your sins it is,
Remove this rust and you shall
Perceive how Glorious He is. -- Rumi
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The soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.
What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive? -- Rumi
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In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says your beauty lights up everything around you. -- Rumi
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Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists. -- Rumi
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Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status. -- Rumi
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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. -- Rumi
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The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom. -- Rumi
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What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life. -- Rumi
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Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it. -- Rumi
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When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them. -- Rumi
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Embrace the light and let it guide you Beyond the winds of desire. -- Rumi
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Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. -- Rumi
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The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve. -- Rumi
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When God
wishes to help,
he lets us weep.
Wherever water flows,
life flourishes,
wherever tears fall
divine mercy is shown. -- Rumi
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I lamented in every gathering;
I associated with those in bad or happy circumstances.
(But) everyone became my friend from his (own) opinion;
he did not seek my secrets from within me.
My secret is not far from my lament,
but eyes and ears do not have the light (to sense it. -- Rumi
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Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond. -- Rumi
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Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever. -- Rumi
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -- Rumi
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It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you -- Rumi
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GO WITH MUDDY FEET
When you hear dirty story
wash your ears.
When you see ugly stuff
wash your eyes.
When you get bad thoughts
wash your mind.
and
Keep your feet muddy. -- Rumi
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Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. -- Rumi
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Look at me as many times as you wish,
but you won't get to know me!
Since you have last seen me,
I've changed a hundred times! -- Rumi
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I open and fill with
LOVE and what is not
LOVE ... evaporates! -- Rumi
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How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean. -- Rumi
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Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends. -- Rumi
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For beloved cross every pass
Worldly affairs slow their pace
A flowing brook amidst the grass
Flowing tears his face shall trace
His ego is shattered glass Self-estranged, himself deface
Sense the Divine in spirit and mass
If he is truly seeking grace -- Rumi
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Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead. -- Rumi
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My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know. -- Rumi
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Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow? -- Rumi
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There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion. -- Rumi
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You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self. -- Rumi
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A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison. -- Rumi
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Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes. -- Rumi
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Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you. -- Rumi
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To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness. -- Rumi
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Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words. -- Rumi
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All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you. -- Rumi
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I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless? -- Rumi
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As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil. -- Rumi
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I made an oath to myself:
as long as I live
as long as my soul remains in this body
I won't deviate from the right way
but later I looked to my left and then to my right
and I saw our beloved everywhere
how could I make a wrong turn? -- Rumi
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Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed. -- Rumi
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Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night -- Rumi
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The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end. -- Rumi
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Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In
God's Eyes. -- Rumi
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Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries. -- Rumi
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All winter you carved water jars out of ice.
How well will they hold the summer snowmelt? -- Rumi
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Within tears, find hidden laughter
Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. -- Rumi
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Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
For God has placed a pearl in sorrow's hand. -- Rumi
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In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring. -- Rumi
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Live at the empty heart of paradox.
I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek. -- Rumi
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Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself. -- Rumi
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I have no fear
to burn my mouth and throat
I'm ready to drink every flame and more. -- Rumi
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Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it. -- Rumi
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Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that. -- Rumi
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In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love. -- Rumi
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When our guides and those who are cherished by us leave and disappear, they are not annihilated, they are like stars that vanish into the light of the sun of reality. -- Rumi
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Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?
Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom. -- Rumi
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Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. -- Rumi
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What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved? -- Rumi
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Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart. -- Rumi
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The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God. -- Rumi
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The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming. -- Rumi
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I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love -- Rumi
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The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us. -- Rumi
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Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek. -- Rumi
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Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now. -- Rumi
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Love is the way messengers
from the mystery tell us things -- Rumi
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Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. -- Rumi
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No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God. -- Rumi
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Don't knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren't you? -- Rumi
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Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want. -- Rumi
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Flowers open every night
across the sky, a breathing peace,
and sudden flame catching. -- Rumi
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Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude. -- Rumi
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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings ... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full. -- Rumi
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I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me. -- Rumi
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How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth! -- Rumi
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Be with those who help your being. -- Rumi
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I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved. -- Rumi
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You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won't have to become coins. -- Rumi
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Friend, our closeness is this : Anywhere
you put your foot, feel me in the firmness
under you.
How is it with this love,
I see your world, but not you? -- Rumi
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Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself ... ! -- Rumi
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. -- Rumi
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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him. -- Rumi
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My dear soul, flee from the worthless,
stay close only to those with a pure heart.
Like attracts like.
A crow will lead you to the graveyard,
a parrot to a lump of sugar. -- Rumi
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Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship. -- Rumi
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Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love -- Rumi
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And watch two men washing clothes,
one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.
Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work. -- Rumi
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You are a volume in the divine book
A mirror to the power that created the universe
Whatever you want, ask it of yourself
Whatever you're looking for can only be found
Inside of you -- Rumi
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Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul. -- Rumi
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Was dead
i came alive
i was tears
i became laughter
all because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal -- Rumi
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In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat. -- Rumi
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In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love is mute. -- Rumi
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When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert! -- Rumi
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was. -- Rumi
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This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth. -- Rumi
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There is a way of loving not attached to what is loved.
Observe how water is with the ground,
always moving toward the ocean,
though the ground tries to hold water's foot
and not let it go. -- Rumi
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When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends. -- Rumi
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There is a window from one heart to another heart. -- Rumi
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Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next. -- Rumi
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Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. -- Rumi
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When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home -- Rumi
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The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance. -- Rumi
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What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe. -- Rumi
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I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft. -- Rumi
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When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it. -- Rumi
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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. -- Rumi
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This is how the world speaks to us. It delights in spring blossoms, even as they fall. -- Rumi
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You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery -- Rumi
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives. -- Rumi
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Let your Teacher be Love itself. -- Rumi
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. -- Rumi
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The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow? -- Rumi
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God has allowed some magical reversal to occur,
so that you see the scorpion pit
as an object of desire,
and all the beautiful expanse around it
as dangerous and swarming with snakes. -- Rumi
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I should be suspicious of what I want. -- Rumi
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The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing. -- Rumi
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Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are. -- Rumi
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In the sea of love, I melt like salt, Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart, The worlds turn in it. -- Rumi
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I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.' -- Rumi
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Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun. -- Rumi
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I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life. -- Rumi
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Don't look for me in a human shape,
I am inside your looking. -- Rumi
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What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature. -- Rumi
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There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually
about love and the way.
Those Egyptian women, when they saw Joseph,
they were not judging his handsomeness.
They were lost in it,
cutting their hands as they cut their food. -- Rumi
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New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception. -- Rumi
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In fact, my soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you, We hide in each other. -- Rumi
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This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children. -- Rumi
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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. -- Rumi
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When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest! -- Rumi
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I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was. -- Rumi
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Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently ... Can words describe the indescribable? -- Rumi
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Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines. -- Rumi
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You came suddenly shook me from my sleep and vanished.
In my heart you rose like the moon
but as I glanced at you, you disappeared.
Having had a glimpse of Your garden,
I have no more the patience to endure my existence ... -- Rumi
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If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire. -- Rumi
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When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us.
There's no place like that anywhere in the world.'
Rumi -- Rumi
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Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith. -- Rumi
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A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth. -- Rumi
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Inside any deep asking is the answering. -- Rumi
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There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye. -- Rumi
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A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences. -- Rumi
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If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception. -- Rumi
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No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was. -- Rumi
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If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to. -- Rumi
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I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. -- Rumi
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Pure souls, didn't I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter. -- Rumi
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Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence. -- Rumi
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The universe swings again into orbit around us.
Am I looking for you or you for me?
The question is wrong.
As long as I keep using two pronouns,
I am this in-between, two-headed thing. -- Rumi
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There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for. -- Rumi
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One day your heart will take you to your Lover.
One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved.
Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your
pain will become your cure. -- Rumi
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But these are merely words. You have caught that Light but still have not found humanity. Seek humanity: that is your true purpose. The rest is mere long-windedness. When words are elaborately decorated, their purpose is forgotten. -- Rumi
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Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow. -- Rumi
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Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake. -- Rumi
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I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans. -- Rumi
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I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey ... Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul ... Love says, You are right, but don't claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite. -- Rumi
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How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump. -- Rumi
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At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen. -- Rumi
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Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire. -- Rumi
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Love's creed is separate from all religions. -- Rumi
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No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light. -- Rumi
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I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally ... totally ... silent -- Rumi
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A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived -- Rumi
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Don't run around this world
looking for a hole to hide in.
There are wild beasts in every cave!
If you live with mice,
the cat claws will find you. -- Rumi
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Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, "The faithful are mirrors to one another." MATHNAWI I, 1319, 1328 -- Rumi
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Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. -- Rumi
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All we really want is love's confusing joy. -- Rumi
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Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love.
We are running to contemplate its vast green field.
Do you want to come with us? -- Rumi
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My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. -- Rumi
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Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place. -- Rumi
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The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. -- Rumi
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In Silence there is eloquence. -- Rumi
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The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them. -- Rumi
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When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind -- Rumi
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Blessed is he who listens
with the ear of his heart -- Rumi
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Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom. -- Rumi
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No better love than love with no object -- Rumi
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Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet. -- Rumi
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Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light. -- Rumi
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You came suddenly and stole three things from me. The patience from my heart, the colour from my face and the sleep from my eyes. -- Rumi
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I have found the heart and will never leave This house of light. -- Rumi
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The Water said to the dirty one, "Come here."
The dirty one said, "I am too ashamed."
The water replied, "How will your shame be washed away without me? -- Rumi
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Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself. -- Rumi
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How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about this harmful world?
The only thing it can take from you is your body.
Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking. -- Rumi
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Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring. -- Rumi
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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. -- Rumi
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Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety. -- Rumi
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Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening
so your life will stay fresh. -- Rumi
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We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces. -- Rumi
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Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. -- Rumi
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Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life? -- Rumi
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Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too. -- Rumi
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The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes. -- Rumi
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Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains ... -- Rumi
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Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched. -- Rumi
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
if you come, I'll sit up and sing. -- Rumi
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Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. -- Rumi
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. -- Rumi
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I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool. -- Rumi
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No prayer is complete without presence. -- Rumi
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If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide. -- Rumi
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I can't stop pointing to the beauty. -- Rumi
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If you love someone, you are always joined with them
in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife. -- Rumi
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? -- Rumi
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The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep! -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself. -- Rumi
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If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee.
If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth.
Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy. -- Rumi
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Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it. -- Rumi
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. -- Rumi
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Those who don't want to change, let them sleep. -- Rumi
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Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive. -- Rumi
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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers. -- Rumi
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When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for
one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny.
Alas, don't spoil this precious moment.
Moments like this are very, very rare. -- Rumi
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Learn to speak by listening. -- Rumi
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Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence -- Rumi
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Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness -- Rumi
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I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you. -- Rumi
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If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless. -- Rumi
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Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God. -- Rumi
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A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. Talking, no matter how humble-seeming, is really a kind of bragging. Let silence be the art you practice. #54, I SEE THE FACE -- Rumi
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With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love. -- Rumi
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He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend. -- Rumi
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Every tree, every growing thing as it grows,
says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow. -- Rumi
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When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You,
Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow
From Within Your Own Being. -- Rumi
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. -- Rumi
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Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that's a blessing. -- Rumi
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Keep silence, be mute.
If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD,
be an ear! -- Rumi
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If you look too closely at the form, you'll miss the essence -- Rumi
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Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face
comes from the candle of my spirit. -- Rumi
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Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. -- Rumi
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Lovers have heartaches
That can't be cured by drugs
Or sleep,
Or games,
But only by seeing their beloved. -- Rumi
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Sit with lovers and choose their state.
Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart. -- Rumi
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Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
be quick and spare no effort of your wings -- Rumi
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How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now. -- Rumi
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Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines. -- Rumi
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Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way. -- Rumi
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. -- Rumi
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Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one. -- Rumi
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Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul. -- Rumi
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It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him. -- Rumi
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The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces. -- Rumi
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You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern. -- Rumi
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I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love. -- Rumi
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I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved -- Rumi
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Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head. -- Rumi
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Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere. -- Rumi
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Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God. -- Rumi
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But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you. -- Rumi
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You might get clever and say, "My doubting God's existence was willed by God." Only half true. You also chose to doubt. -- Rumi
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From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape. -- Rumi
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Didn't I tell you, Don't run away from me! Didn't I tell you, In this empty fantasy, Even if for centuries, you wander angrily You'll never find another true companion like me. -- Rumi
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Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk. -- Rumi
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There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on -- Rumi
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Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. -- Rumi
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A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle. -- Rumi
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The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top. -- Rumi
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The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him. -- Rumi
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Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. -- Rumi
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When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening. -- Rumi
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In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life.
I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment.
But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity. -- Rumi
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We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones. -- Rumi
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I,
Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,
Pleasant and gentle, so you are,
Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. -- Rumi
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Love asks us to enjoy our life
For nothing good can come of death.
Who is alive? I ask.
Those who are born of love.
Seek us in love itself,
Seek love in us ourselves.
Sometimes I venerate love,
Sometimes it venerates me. -- Rumi
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I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me. -- Rumi
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The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets. -- Rumi
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Your body is woven
from the light of heaven.
Are you aware
that its purity and swiftness
is the envy of angels
and its courage
keeps even devils away. -- Rumi
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Roar the lion's knowledge. Write
with gold ink so whoever reads this will feel the ocean's light around them and grow
in the spirit. -- Rumi
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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls. -- Rumi
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Listen to the sound of waves within you. -- Rumi
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I merged so completely with love, and was so fused,
that I became Love and Love became me. -- Rumi
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For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mountain
And the desert, all I desire. -- Rumi
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Through love the devil becomes an angel.
Through love stones become soft as butter.
Through love grief is like delight.
Through love demons become the servants of God. -- Rumi
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From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You. -- Rumi
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The day is coming when I fly off, but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice? Who says words with my mouth? Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. -- Rumi
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Listen to presences inside poems. -- Rumi
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Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world. -- Rumi
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I am so close, I may look distant.
So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.
So out in the open, I appear hidden.
So silent, because I am constantly talking with you. -- Rumi
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Who am I ?
Standing in the midst
of this thought traffic. -- Rumi
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You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home. -- Rumi
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If destiny comes to help you,
Love will come to meet you.
A life without love isn't a life -- Rumi
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Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself -- Rumi
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. -- Rumi
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Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst. -- Rumi
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O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things. -- Rumi
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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. -- Rumi
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Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace. -- Rumi
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Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them -- Rumi
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The world is nothing but a moment. -- Rumi
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In real existence there is only unity. -- Rumi
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Fasting is the first principle of medicine. -- Rumi
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Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking. -- Rumi
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Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
and your face will come to shine like a sun,
and everyone who sees it will
be made glad and peaceful. -- Rumi
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Your kindness cannot be said.
You open doors in the sky.
You ease the heart and make
God's qualities visible. -- Rumi
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The quieter we become, the more we can hear. -- Rumi
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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind. -- Rumi
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Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love's stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love's horse will carry you home. -- Rumi
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You call out, I am the lover,
But these are mere words.
If you see lover and Beloved as two,
you either have double vision,
or you can't count. -- Rumi
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This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it. -- Rumi
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Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light. -- Rumi
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FROM MYSELF I am copper,
through You, friend, I am gold.
From myself I'm a stone, but
through You I am a gem! -- Rumi
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Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold. -- Rumi
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If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing. -- Rumi
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Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy. -- Rumi
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We have fallen into the sugar shaker.
We are the ground beneath you.
Let someone else describe the sky.
Hold us in silence.
Do no throw us back
into some discussion. -- Rumi
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Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU. -- Rumi
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Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places? -- Rumi
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Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining. -- Rumi
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This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. -- Rumi
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There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives. -- Rumi
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Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup. -- Rumi
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Don't run away from grief, o' soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone. -- Rumi
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You erased my famine, unpicked my anger
Your energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;
Now I am alive with the ore of words pouring
From my lips like molten lava glittering with joy. -- Rumi
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The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement. -- Rumi
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There is someone who looks after us
from behind the curtain.
In truth we are not here, this is our shadow. -- Rumi
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Do not leave me,
hide in my heart like a secret,
wind around my head like a turban.
"I come and go as I please,"
you say, "swift as a heartbeat."
You can tease me as much as you like
but never leave me. -- Rumi
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Patience is the key to joy. -- Rumi
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The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection. -- Rumi
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Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire. -- Rumi
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I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. -- Rumi
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Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. -- Rumi
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I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one. -- Rumi
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Dance from here to the other world-and don't stop. -- Rumi
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Indeed,
we are one soul,
you and me.
In the show
and hide you in me,
I am in you.
Here is the deeper meaning
of my relationship with you,
Because there is nor I, nor you.
between you and me. -- Rumi
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? -- Rumi
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Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it. -- Rumi
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For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same. -- Rumi
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize. -- Rumi
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Silence gives answers. -- Rumi
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Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there. -- Rumi
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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health. -- Rumi
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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. -- Rumi
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Listen, open the heart's window
and keep looking at the Beloved.
The task of love is to open that window
so the heart can be illuminated by His Beauty.
Gaze incessantly at the Beloved's face.
That is your power, my friend -- Rumi
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If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. -- Rumi
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Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed. -- Rumi
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Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -- Rumi
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God Will Remain in you if duality Is Not Remain in You. -- Rumi
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Love is fearless in the midst
of the sea of fear. -- Rumi
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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl -- Rumi
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A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul! -- Rumi
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You are my wine, my joy,
My garden, my springtime,
My slumber, my repose,
Without you, I can't cope. -- Rumi
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Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation. -- Rumi
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Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers. -- Rumi
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There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it. -- Rumi
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They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire. -- Rumi
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You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, -- Rumi
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I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. -- Rumi
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All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know! -- Rumi
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Appear as you are, Be as you appear. -- Rumi
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Love is neither a tale nor a game.
Love is such a powerful torrent
that no one can stand in front of it.
Love is the flame which, when it blazes,
consumes everything other than the Beloved -- Rumi
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Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear,
But love unexplained is clearer -- Rumi
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I don't regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion. -- Rumi
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Out beyond
the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
doesn't make any sense. -- Rumi
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A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection. -- Rumi
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Wisdom tells us we are not worthy;
Love tells us we are.
My life flows between the two. -- Rumi
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Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing. -- Rumi
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You are the comfort of my soul
in the season of sorrow.
You are the wealth of my spirit
in the heartbreak of loss. -- Rumi
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I went inside my heart
to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear
the whole world weeping. -- Rumi
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Love is the bridge between you and everything. -- Rumi
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You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment. -- Rumi
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Treasure is stored in the ruined places.
Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people -- Rumi
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Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that. -- Rumi
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I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born. -- Rumi
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I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky. -- Rumi
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The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it. -- Rumi
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You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. -- Rumi
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We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now! -- Rumi
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Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. -- Rumi
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If you see Two in One - I only see One in Two -- Rumi
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When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean. -- Rumi
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Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless ... Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors ... for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself. -- Rumi
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The only way to measure a lover
is by the grandeur of the beloved. -- Rumi
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That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again -- Rumi
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If your heart isn't yet illumined
Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart,
Be at war continually with your carnal soul.
But if your heart is already awakened,
Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love -- Rumi
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In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance. -- Rumi
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They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls? -- Rumi
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Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know. -- Rumi
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Go to the well of deep Love inside each of Us. -- Rumi
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Then I looked within my own heart
and there I found Him
He was nowhere else. -- Rumi
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And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security? -- Rumi
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The message behind the words
is the voice of the heart. -- Rumi
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Nothing can help me but that beauty.
There was a dawn I remember
when my soul heard something from your soul.
I drank water from your spring
and felt the current take me. -- Rumi
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Stars burn clear
all night till dawn.
Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for. -- Rumi
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If God should smile at someone once ..he then
will not hurt by bitter looks from men -- Rumi
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All language is a longing for home. -- Rumi
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Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down. -- Rumi
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Your faces are very beautiful,
but they are wooden cages.
You had better run from me.
My words are fire. -- Rumi
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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. -- Rumi
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I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become. -- Rumi
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There is nothing I want but your presence.
In friendship, time dissolves.
Life is a cup. This connection
is pure wine. What else are cups for?
I used to have twenty thousand
different desires. -- Rumi
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Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts. -- Rumi
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If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become. -- Rumi
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What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest. -- Rumi
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If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action. -- Rumi
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My sight
My heart
My Life
All three words I have woven into one ... Love. -- Rumi
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The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt. -- Rumi
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We may know who we are or we may not
We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians
but until our hearts become the mould for every for every heart
we will only see our differences -- Rumi
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From a distance you only see my light; as I get closer and you see that I am you. -- Rumi
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah ... it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. -- Rumi
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This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion. -- Rumi
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The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see. -- Rumi
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Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine? -- Rumi
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Why are you so afraid of silence,
silence is the root of everything.
If you spiral into its void,
a hundred voices will thunder
messages you long to hear -- Rumi
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Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself. -- Rumi
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I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less ... -- Rumi
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I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point? -- Rumi
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At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window. -- Rumi
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You make my dance daring enough to finish. No more timidity. Let fruit fall, and wind turn my roots up in the air, done with patient waiting. -- Rumi
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Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea. -- Rumi
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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth. -- Rumi
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No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.
So the nightbirds will start singing. -- Rumi
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Two there are who are never satisfied
the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge. -- Rumi
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You run back and forth listening for unusual events,
peering into the faces of travelers.
"Why are you looking at me like a madman?"
I have lost a friend. Please forgive me. -- Rumi
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Let your soul turn into a mirror that passionately wants to reflect Joseph.
Hand him your present.
Now let silence speak. As that begins, we will start out. -- Rumi
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I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled. -- Rumi
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Love is cure,
Love is power,
Love is the magic of changes.
Love is the mirror, of divine beauty! -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Submit to love without thinking,
as the sun rose this morning
recklessly extinguishing
our star-candle minds. -- Rumi
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You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky. -- Rumi
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I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. -- Rumi
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Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness. -- Rumi
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Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof. -- Rumi
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If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring. -- Rumi
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Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. -- Rumi
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Every need brings what's needed.
Pain bears its cure like a child.
Having nothing produces provisions.
Ask a difficult question,
And the marvelous answer appears. -- Rumi
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Idle man, chases after fairy tales ... -- Rumi
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In the silence of love
you will find the spark of life -- Rumi
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If someone asks,
But what is Love?
Answer,
Dissolving the will. -- Rumi
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If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing. -- Rumi
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In our hearts there burns a fire ...
That burns all veils to their root and foundation
When those veils have been burned away
Then the heart will understand completely.
Ancient love will unfold ever-fresh forms
In the heart of the Spirit,
In the core of the heart. -- Rumi
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There is a place where words are born of silence. -- Rumi
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All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of Allah. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their manifesting, while others are unaware. However it may be, Allah's manifestation is confirmed. -- Rumi
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Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space. -- Rumi
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A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself. -- Rumi
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I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul. -- Rumi
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All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. -- Rumi
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There is a window between heart and heart:
They are never separate like two bodies.
Two lamps may not be united in their form -
But their light merges into each other. -- Rumi
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires. -- Rumi
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Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is. -- Rumi
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I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea. -- Rumi
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Advice doesn't help lovers!
They're not the kind of mountain stream
you can build a dam across. -- Rumi
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Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music. -- Rumi
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If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul. -- Rumi
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Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. -- Rumi
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Here's the new rule: break the wineglass, and fall toward the glassblower's breath. -- Rumi
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Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty. -- Rumi
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I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",
I too scoffed at lovers,
Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.
No one is safe! Watch out. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Each moment contains a hundred messages from God. -- Rumi
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Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name. -- Rumi
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Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. -- Rumi
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When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine. -- Rumi
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Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations. -- Rumi
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Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I ... -- Rumi
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Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness. -- Rumi
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You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light. -- Rumi
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People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love. -- Rumi
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One cannot lodge in if. -- Rumi
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Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. -- Rumi
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The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth. -- Rumi
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In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity. -- Rumi
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A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it. -- Rumi
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The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things. -- Rumi
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You show your worth by what you seek. -- Rumi
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty. -- Rumi
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I was you
and never knew it. -- Rumi
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Angels dance only with You, Beloved
and only before You do I bow in adoration.
You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever. -- Rumi
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Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute. -- Rumi
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Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms. -- Rumi
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With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself. -- Rumi
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There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness. -- Rumi
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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. -- Rumi
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If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast. -- Rumi
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Whatever you know, or don't - only Love is real. -- Rumi
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I wrote
Your Name
in My Heart
and
Forever
it will Stay. -- Rumi
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Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. -- Rumi
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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. -- Rumi
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Someday our souls will be one and
our union will be forever.
I know that everything I give you comes back to me.
So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me. -- Rumi
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Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. -- Rumi
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The lion is most handsome when looking for food. -- Rumi
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When you are with everyone but me,
you're with no one.
When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone.
Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you
become that many, you're nothing. Empty. -- Rumi
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You moan, "She left me." "He left me,"
Twenty more will come. -- Rumi
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You are water, whirling water,
Yet still water trapped within,
Come, submerge yourself within us,
We who are the flowing stream. -- Rumi
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. -- Rumi
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Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets. -- Rumi
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Here is a story of a young prince who suddenly sees that the ambitious world is a big game of king
of the mountain, a boy scrambling up a pile of sand to call out, "I am king"; then another
throws him off to make his momentary claim, then another and so on. -- Rumi
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At a distance you only see my light ...
Come closer and Know that I am You -- Rumi
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There's courage involved if you want to become Truth. -- Rumi
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I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself. -- Rumi
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If you can't smell the fragrance
don't come into the garden of Love.
if you are unwilling to undress
don't enter into the stream of
Truth. Stay where you are, don't
come our way -- Rumi
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What you have despised in yourself
as a thorn opens into a rose. -- Rumi
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. -- Rumi
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Know mankind well,
don't degrade every man as evil,
and don't exalt every man
thinking he is good.
He who cannot discover himself;
cannot discover the world. -- Rumi
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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 -- Rumi
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Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy. -- Rumi
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O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God. -- Rumi
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A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart. -- Rumi
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Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last. -- Rumi
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Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key! -- Rumi
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Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love. -- Rumi
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Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. -- Rumi
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Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners. -- Rumi
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How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover? -- Rumi
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What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl. -- Rumi
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Those with lives filled with laughter and sorrow,
Have no choice but to live between the two, in borrow.
Where is the green garden of love, that's infinite?
More than sorrow and laughter, plenty of fruits in it. -- Rumi
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Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other's company. -- Rumi
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When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt,
pain itself will crack the rock and Ah!
Let the soul emerge ... -- Rumi
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Whatever purifies you is the correct road. -- Rumi
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Each night the moon kisses secretly
the lover who counts the stars -- Rumi
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And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow. -- Rumi
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We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart! -- Rumi
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All the particles of the World are in Love
and looking for Lovers. -- Rumi
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Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Aren't in love. -- Rumi
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Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again. -- Rumi
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Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source. -- Rumi
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We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror -- Rumi
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Whoever gives reverence receives reverence -- Rumi
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God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. -- Rumi
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I said "show me the ladder, that I may climb up to heaven '
He said "your head is the ladder, bring your head down under your feet -- Rumi
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Bring anger and pride under your feet,
turn them into a ladder and climb higher. -- Rumi
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My soul Is Naked.
It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love. -- Rumi
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Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key. -- Rumi
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It's no good giving my heart and my
Soul because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me. -- Rumi
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ONCE a beloved asked her lover: "Friend,
You have seen many places in the world!
Now - which of all these cities was the best?
He said: "The city where my sweetheart lives! -- Rumi
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Be motivated like the falcon,
hunt gloriously.
Be magnificent as the leopard,
fight to win.
Spend less time with
nightingales and peacocks.
One is all talk,
the other only color. -- Rumi
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Life Is Sweet
But Merging With You
Is Far Sweeter -- Rumi
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Let me praise you tonight.
Because tomorrow you cannot be described by words,
While describing you.
Tomorrow, earth and sky will disappear altogether. -- Rumi
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Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything. -- Rumi
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We are the Sun with all the different
kinds of Light. -- Rumi
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You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence. -- Rumi
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The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture. -- Rumi
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The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece. -- Rumi
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The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do. -- Rumi
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To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life. -- Rumi
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Love means to reach for the sky
and with every breath to tear a
hundred veils. Love means to step
away from the ego, to open the eyes
of inner vision and not to take this
world so seriously -- Rumi
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Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed." -- Rumi
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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. -- Rumi
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked -- Rumi
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What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life. -- Rumi
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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created. -- Rumi
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There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes. -- Rumi
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When LOVE for GOD has been doubled in your HEART,
there is no doubt that GOD has love for YOU. -- Rumi
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Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al -- Rumi
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God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him. -- Rumi
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To Love is to reach God. -- Rumi
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God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning. -- Rumi
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Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart. -- Rumi
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Lots of ways to reach God,
I chose love. -- Rumi
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Jesus was lost in his love for God. -- Rumi
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God put thorns around the
Love's door to stop anyone
who's not a Lover from entering. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long. -- Rumi
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Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God
manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of
the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and
the leaf. -- Rumi
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I'm the devoted slave of anyone who doesn't claim to have attained dining with God at every way station. Many inns must be left behind before you reach your home. -- Rumi
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Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God. -- Rumi
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God has given us a dark wine so potent that, drinking it, we leave the two worlds. -- Rumi
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God does not look at your outer forms,
but at the love within your love. -- Rumi
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Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God. -- Rumi
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By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. -- Rumi
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Remember God so much that you are forgotten. -- Rumi
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I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God -- Rumi
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The lovers of God have no religion but God alone. -- Rumi
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Love is the house of God and you are living in that house. -- Rumi
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The wit taught by God to the bee
Is withheld from the lion and the wild ass. -- Rumi
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Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one. -- Rumi
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Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you. -- Rumi
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I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak. -- Rumi
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. -- Rumi
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Whether one moves
slowly or with speed,
the one who
is a seeker
will be a finder. -- Rumi
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And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river. -- Rumi
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Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing. -- Rumi
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Some nights stay up till dawn,
as the moon sometimes does for the sun.
Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way
of a well, then lifted out into light. -- Rumi
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Be the rising Moon in my dark nights.
I am thirsty for your Light. -- Rumi
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Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting. -- Rumi
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I say, Show me the way.
You say, Put your head
under your feet.
That way you rise through the stars
and see a hundred different ways
to be with me. -- Rumi
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I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful. -- Rumi
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People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. -- Rumi
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Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing. -- Rumi
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And from beyond the intellect, beautiful Love
comes dragging her skirts, a cup of wine in her hand. -- Rumi
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You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself -- Rumi
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If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader. -- Rumi
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Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love. -- Rumi
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I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind. -- Rumi
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The whole business of love is to drown in the sea. -- Rumi
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You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. -- Rumi
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You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck! -- Rumi
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Speak with the language of love. -- Rumi
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The Lover is ever drunk with Love.
He is mad. She is free.
He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy.
Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
Whatever will be, will be. -- Rumi
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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. -- Rumi
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Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego. -- Rumi
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I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. -- Rumi
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If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment. -- Rumi
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Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe. -- Rumi
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Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds. -- Rumi
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We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here. -- Rumi
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Love is an emerald.
Its brilliant light wards off dragons
On this treacherous path. -- Rumi
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Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness. -- Rumi
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A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart!
No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!! -- Rumi
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Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. -- Rumi
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Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine. -- Rumi
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No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul. -- Rumi
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Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief. -- Rumi
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Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself. -- Rumi
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Tonight the moon kisses the stars.
O beloved,be like that to me! -- Rumi
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You know what love is?
It is all kindness, generosity. -- Rumi
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird. -- Rumi
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When you stop admiring yourself
and let the eyes of the heart
open your vision to vast other worlds
then all you do, will become admirable -- Rumi
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I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty. -- Rumi
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Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony. -- Rumi
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Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal. -- Rumi
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Shadows can indicate what's shining bright But it's the sun which fills your soul with light, -- Rumi
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As long as you are crawling like a snake on this earth do not hope to swim like fish in the sea of Spirit. -- Rumi
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Let the beauty we love do what we do. -- Rumi
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In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion. -- Rumi
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By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once. -- Rumi
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Love is the sea where intellect drowns. -- Rumi
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Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. -- Rumi
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If words come from the heart, they will enter the heart. If they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears. -- Rumi
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Poems are rough notations for the music we are. -- Rumi
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That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change. -- Rumi
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Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things. -- Rumi
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He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal. -- Rumi
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To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel. -- Rumi
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Are you searching for the river of your soul?
Then come out of your prison.
Leave the stream
and join the river
that flows into the ocean. -- Rumi
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The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you. -- Rumi
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Behead yourself! ... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing! -- Rumi
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In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear. -- Rumi
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When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth. -- Rumi
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If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows. -- Rumi
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Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur. -- Rumi
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Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum. -- Rumi
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The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected. -- Rumi
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Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love. -- Rumi
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Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream. -- Rumi
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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside. -- Rumi
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If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak. -- Rumi
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The here-and-now mountain
is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
blown off into emptiness. -- Rumi
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Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment. -- Rumi
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Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit. -- Rumi
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The lover never despairs.
For a committed heart everything is possible. -- Rumi
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Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that light becomes this art. -- Rumi
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There is a place where voices sing your beauty,
A place where every breath carves your image in my soul. -- Rumi
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Stay together, friends.
Don't scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made
of being awake. -- Rumi
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Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less. -- Rumi
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The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle. -- Rumi
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Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Finding faults is for those with tired minds. -- Rumi
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In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. -- Rumi
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There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. -- Rumi
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If i can only recount
the story of my life
right out of my body
flames will grow -- Rumi
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While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away. -- Rumi
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My beloved grows Right out of my own heart How much more union can there be. -- Rumi
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I don't know why; when I look at you, I see myself -- Rumi
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The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache. -- Rumi
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Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed. -- Rumi
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This mirror inside me shows. I can't say what, but I can't not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere. -- Rumi
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This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight. -- Rumi
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You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness. -- Rumi
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On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter. -- Rumi
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No one becomes a scholar by virtue of robe and turban. Scholarship is a virtue in its very essence, and whether that virtue is clothed in tunic or overcoat, it makes no difference. -- Rumi
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Lay aside caution, it cannot help thee against destiny; to worry with precaution is to toil and moil; go, trust in providence, trust in the better part. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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May these vows and this marriage be blessed. -- Rumi
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There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket. -- Rumi
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While the mind sees only boundaries,
Love knows the secret way there. -- Rumi
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Some people say about human beings, 'Dust to dust'.
But how can that be true of one
who changes road dust to doorway?
The crop appears to be one thing
when it is still in the field.
Then the transformation time comes,
and we see how it is: half chaff, half grain. -- Rumi
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For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed. -- Rumi
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You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. -- Rumi
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Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine. -- Rumi
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Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light. -- Rumi
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It is Love that gives joy to happiness. -- Rumi
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Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. -- Rumi
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War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible. -- Rumi
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You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it. -- Rumi
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Everything has to do with loving and not loving. -- Rumi
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If there were no grace and no kindness,
conversation would be useless, and nothing we do would matter. Listen
to the new stories that begin every day. If light were not beginning
again in the east, I would not now wake and walk out inside this dawn. -- Rumi
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Open your hands if you want to be held. -- Rumi
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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. -- Rumi
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My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold. -- Rumi
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We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. -- Rumi
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You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean -- Rumi
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Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. -- Rumi
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To the mind there is such a thing as news, whereas to inner knowing, it's all in the middle of its happening. To doubters, this is a pain. To believers, it's gospel. To the lover and the visionary, it's life as it's being lived. -- Rumi
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What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart -- Rumi
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I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light. -- Rumi
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I always thought that
I was me - but no,
I was you
and never knew it. -- Rumi
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Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you. -- Rumi
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Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance -- Rumi
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If you have much, give of your wealth;
If you have little, give of your Heart. -- Rumi
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For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back. -- Rumi
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Be like sugarcane sweet yet silent
don't get mixed up with bitter words -- Rumi
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Walk patiently through this troubled world,
and you will find great treasure.
Even though your house may be small,
look within it! -- Rumi
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There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been. -- Rumi
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I eliminated duality with joyous laughter
Saw the unity of here and the hereafter
Unity is what I sing, unity is what I speak
Unity is what I know, unity is what I seek -- Rumi
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Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace -- Rumi
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Be like the cat, so alive after the mouse, never wondering or questioning why,
when there is really only God, only God ...
touching our
paws. -- Rumi
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Any one in love
will have no religion. -- Rumi
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Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there? -- Rumi
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I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover -- Rumi
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Make your last journey
from this strange world
soar for the heights
where there is no more
separation of you and your home
God has created
your wings not to be dormant
as long as you are alive
you must try more and more
to use your wings to show you're alive -- Rumi
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Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions. -- Rumi
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The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup. -- Rumi
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Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time! -- Rumi
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The soul lives there in the silent breath. -- Rumi
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Half-Heartedness Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness does not reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses. -- Rumi
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. -- Rumi
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Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible. -- Rumi
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Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you? -- Rumi
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Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet. -- Rumi
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The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world. -- Rumi
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The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites -- Rumi
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Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have. -- Rumi
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The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of LOVE. -- Rumi
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The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that? -- Rumi
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The word grows mad on the ferment
Of angry actions, the authorities can only inflict
Visible punishments. Now regard with the unpracticed
Inner eye the unseen presence of Judgement then
You will understand the nature of your soul's torment -- Rumi
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Look carefully around you and recognize
the luminosity of souls.
Sit beside those who draw you to that. -- Rumi
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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. -- Rumi
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The quiter you become, the more able you are to hear -- Rumi
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The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times. -- Rumi
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When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place. -- Rumi
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Submit to love without thinking -- Rumi
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For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times. -- Rumi
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed. -- Rumi
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Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see. -- Rumi
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If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. -- Rumi
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The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. -- Rumi
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Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love -- Rumi
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When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit. -- Rumi
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If I could repeat it,
people passing by would be enlightened and go free. -- Rumi
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You are the honoured guest,
Do not weep like a beggar
For pieces of the world. -- Rumi
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On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you. -- Rumi
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Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant. -- Rumi
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I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can reappear, whole and radiant in any one of us at any moment. -- Rumi
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We are all bathed in the same light. -- Rumi
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I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain. -- Rumi
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated. -- Rumi
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Your Soul and Mine. Use to be mingled. Breathing as One. Journeying as One. -- Rumi
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The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one. -- Rumi
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One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear. -- Rumi
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When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope ... -- Rumi
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Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face. -- Rumi
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Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one. -- Rumi
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We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. -- Rumi
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The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage. -- Rumi
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The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. -- Rumi
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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night. -- Rumi
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If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart. -- Rumi
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My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. -- Rumi
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This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives. -- Rumi
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From understanding comes LOVE. -- Rumi
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In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance. -- Rumi
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Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone. -- Rumi
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Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent. -- Rumi
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We are the fingertips of blind illusion,
You are the absolute Cause of causes. -- Rumi
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If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self. -- Rumi
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Only the soul knows what love is. -- Rumi
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Your radiance shines
in every atom of creation
yet our petty desires keep it hidden. -- Rumi
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I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven. -- Rumi
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I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don't, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day. -- Rumi
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Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening. -- Rumi
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Let your throat-song
be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length
suppliant, at the door. -- Rumi
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He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun -- Rumi
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Why should I be unhappy?
Every parcel of my being
is in full bloom. -- Rumi
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The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. -- Rumi
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Your misconceptions veil the holy. The Princess is naked
beneath the surface of every form. Your boredom would
vanish if you had more of a clue about the Reality I know. -- Rumi
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Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.' -- Rumi
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You are the source of the sun.
And I am the willow's shadow.
Oh, you have struck me on the head,
Wretch that I am, on fire am I. -- Rumi
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Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls -- Rumi
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Kindle in thy heart the flame of love. -- Rumi
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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. -- Rumi
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart. -- Rumi
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Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. -- Rumi
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There is only one search: wandering ... no dogma and no heresy. -- Rumi
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Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love. -- Rumi
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If you put your heart against the earth with me
In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you
From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be
So happy. -- Rumi
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Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy. -- Rumi
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Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths. -- Rumi
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Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love. -- Rumi
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Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ? -- Rumi
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If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted. -- Rumi
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Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love. -- Rumi
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We are the the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the moon, while we sit here together. -- Rumi
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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, -- Rumi
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Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. -- Rumi
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But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres. -- Rumi
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Doing as others told me, I was Blind.
Coming when others called me, I was Lost.
Then I left everyone, myself as well.
Then I found Everyone, Myself as well. -- Rumi
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Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there -- Rumi
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Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply. -- Rumi
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I have spent my life dreaming of your face. Now, I have found it. -- Rumi
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Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved. -- Rumi
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The heart is the secret inside the secret. -- Rumi
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Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure. -- Rumi
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Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That. -- Rumi
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All is known in the sacredness of silence. -- Rumi
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To Love is to be God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to be God. -- Rumi
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Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe. -- Rumi
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This that is tormented and very tired,
tortured with restraints like a madman,
this heart. -- Rumi
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There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter. -- Rumi
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Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open. -- Rumi
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For me to praise is interrupting praise. -- Rumi
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There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it. -- Rumi
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If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light. -- Rumi
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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak. -- Rumi
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. -- Rumi
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Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden. -- Rumi
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You were sent to unite people
You were not been sent to divide people. -- Rumi
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When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage. -- Rumi
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Raise your words, not your voice. -- Rumi
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -- Rumi
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You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love. -- Rumi
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There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there. -- Rumi
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You are guardian of a treasure,
Oh, just like a sleeping serpent
And you shall see, I shall make you
Spin around like that sleepy snake.
Listen to me. -- Rumi
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They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion. -- Rumi
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Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace. -- Rumi
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. -- Rumi
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Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like. -- Rumi
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This world
hurts
my head
with its answers.
I would burn if I had a choice. -- Rumi
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Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy -- Rumi
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All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep. -- Rumi
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World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters. -- Rumi
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The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique,
who is your Beginning and your End. -- Rumi
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And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. -- Rumi
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First, when I was apart from you,
this world did not exist, nor any other.
Second, whatever I was looking for
was always you. -- Rumi
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Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved. -- Rumi
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I am a tambourine. Don't put me aside
till the fast dancing starts.
Play me some all along.
Help me with these little sounds. -- Rumi
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Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace. -- Rumi
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You think the shadow is the substance. -- Rumi
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Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly. -- Rumi
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Dance when you're perfectly free. -- Rumi
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A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known. -- Rumi
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Everything is soul and flowering. -- Rumi
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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites. -- Rumi
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When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. -- Rumi
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When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at the giver. -- Rumi
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Always check your inner state
with the lord of your HEART. -- Rumi
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Don't regret what's happened.
If it's in the past, LET IT GO.
Don't even remember it! -- Rumi
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Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. -- Rumi
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The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder. -- Rumi
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Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself ... -- Rumi
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Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face,
for i see you there,
my dear. -- Rumi
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The radiant one in me has never said a word ... -- Rumi
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Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore. -- Rumi
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. -- Rumi
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Live life as if its rigged in your favor. -- Rumi
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Only love itself can explain love and lovers. -- Rumi
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No prayer is complete without prescence -- Rumi
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Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. -- Rumi
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Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul. -- Rumi
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Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul. -- Rumi
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Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there. -- Rumi
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My religion is, to live through Love. -- Rumi
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Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that. -- Rumi
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The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer! -- Rumi
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YOU ARE SUCH
THAT BESIDES THIS (PHYSICAL) BODY
YOU HAVE ANOTHER (ASTRAL) BODY.
DO NOT THEREFORE BE AFRAID
OF GETTING OUT
OF THE MORTAL FRAME. -- Rumi
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Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow. -- Rumi
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If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road. -- Rumi
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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. -- Rumi
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What can I do my friends, if I do not know?
I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu.
What can I do? What can I do?
Not of the East, nor of the West,
Nor of the land, nor of the sea,
Not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens.
What could I be? -- Rumi
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How did you get here?
Close your eyes ...
and surrender! -- Rumi
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Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away. -- Rumi
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Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being. -- Rumi
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This dance is the joy of existence. -- Rumi
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Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you? -- Rumi
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I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet! -- Rumi
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Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting. -- Rumi
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I said, "Show me what to do."
He said, Die.
I said, "The water has turned into oil."
He said, Die.
I said, "I will become a butterfly
circling around your light."
He said, Die. -- Rumi
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The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty. -- Rumi
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Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there. -- Rumi
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Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds. -- Rumi
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You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop. -- Rumi
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Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy. -- Rumi
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The water has a Water that is driving it;
The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it. -- Rumi
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Love is nothing other than finding the truth. -- Rumi
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I am part of the load not rightly balanced ... -- Rumi
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. -- Rumi
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The moment an inspiring thought enters your heart, appreciate it as a dear guest visiting you that day. -- Rumi
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The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back. -- Rumi
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Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water! -- Rumi
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Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky. -- Rumi
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Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors. -- Rumi
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There comes a holy
and transparent time
when every touch
of beauty
opens the heart
to tears.
This is the time
the Beloved of heaven
is brought tenderly on earth.
This is the time
of the opening
of the ROSE. -- Rumi
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I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing -- Rumi
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This is Now. Now is,
all there is. Don't wait for Then;
strike the spark, light the fire. -- Rumi
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There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes. -- Rumi
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own. -- Rumi
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No more words. Hear only the voice within. -- Rumi
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Once you have met a true human being,
Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART. -- Rumi
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. -- Rumi
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If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. -- Rumi
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A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man. -- Rumi
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We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts. -- Rumi
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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? -- Rumi
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You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art. -- Rumi
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The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. -- Rumi
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Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light -- Rumi
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Do not waste my words on tired minds.
I can only talk to those who are thirsty
for the sea. -- Rumi
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What is the Heart?
A flower opening ... -- Rumi
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Hold on to the reins of Love and don't be afraid.
Hold on to the real behind the false and don't be
afraid. -- Rumi
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The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror. -- Rumi
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There's no cure, except the retreat into love,
For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts. -- Rumi
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He who tastes not, knows not. -- Rumi
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What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs. -- Rumi
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I shall be happy Even for insults from you I only ask that you Keep some attention on me. -- Rumi
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Those with open hearts always have open hands. -- Rumi
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A special spark rises
from the sorrow of a burning heart.
Have you ever heard
how the sigh of a broken heart
touches the Beloved? -- Rumi
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The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did. -- Rumi
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I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved. -- Rumi
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When we talk about GOD,
we're like a school of fish,
discussing the possible existence of the sea. -- Rumi
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Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart. -- Rumi
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Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. -- Rumi
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Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today. -- Rumi
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I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One. -- Rumi
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Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. -- Rumi
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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted -- Rumi
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You are the mirror of divine beauty. -- Rumi
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We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat! ... -- Rumi
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner. -- Rumi
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The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping. -- Rumi
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All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. -- Rumi
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Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins? -- Rumi
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Revile those who flatter you. -- Rumi
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Choose to love the one who does not die -- Rumi
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Look past your thoughts, so you may
drink the pure nectar of This Moment. -- Rumi
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere? -- Rumi
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The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. -- Rumi
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I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind. -- Rumi
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The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. -- Rumi
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If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical. -- Rumi
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Is your face a beautiful blossom
or a sweet torture?
I have no complaints
but my heart is tempted
to let you
hear of its sorrows. -- Rumi
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Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment. -- Rumi
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In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here. -- Rumi
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Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love. -- Rumi
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The body is a device to calculate
the astronomy of the spirit.
Look through that astrolabe
and become oceanic. -- Rumi
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No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are. -- Rumi
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Let yourself become living poetry. -- Rumi
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Love, the life-giving garden of this world. -- Rumi
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Magicians can be confusing, but
when Moses arrives and throws down the rod that becomes a dragon, how do the trick bowls
look then? When something that alive comes, illusory matters fade. They quit bragging!
A body's death, even, is beautiful to those who see with the soul's eye. -- Rumi
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For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth. -- Rumi
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Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance.
You will come to see that all evolves us. -- Rumi
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You transform all who are touched by you.
Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows
dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY. -- Rumi
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Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness. -- Rumi
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The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light. -- Rumi
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I cried because my 3G was down, until I met a man who had no smartphone. -- Rumi
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Open to me, so that I may open.
Provide me your inspiration
So that I might see mine. -- Rumi
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The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute? -- Rumi
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To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved. -- Rumi
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GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison. -- Rumi
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You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky. -- Rumi
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Limp along until your legs are spent,
and you fall flat and your energy is drained.
Then the grace of the Divine will lift you. -- Rumi
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When I say the word You, I mean
a hundred universes. -- Rumi
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Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken. -- Rumi
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Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all. -- Rumi
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You that give new life to this planet, you that transcend logic, come. I am only an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let fly. -- Rumi
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You will learn by reading,
But you will understand with LOVE. -- Rumi
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The world is a playground, and death is the night. -- Rumi
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Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream. -- Rumi
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The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around! -- Rumi
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Come with me while the wine shop is still open.
We are dizzy with meeting each other. -- Rumi
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There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange. -- Rumi
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Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason. -- Rumi
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You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing. -- Rumi
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Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds. -- Rumi
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In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances -- Rumi
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A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. -- Rumi
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A royal spirit escaped from a prison: why should we rend our garments and how should we gnaw our hands?
Since they were monarchs of the (true) religion, 'twas the hour of joy (for them) when they broke their bonds. -- Rumi
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Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love. -- Rumi
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The love religion is all that is written here. -- Rumi
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But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke? -- Rumi
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This whole universe is but a drop
of His Beauty! -- Rumi
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The Heart is like a candle,
longing to be lit! -- Rumi
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There's a path from your HEART to mine. -- Rumi
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Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. -- Rumi
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Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe. -- Rumi
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You have within you more love than you could ever understand. -- Rumi
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There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity. -- Rumi
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This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are. -- Rumi
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways. -- Rumi
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Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting. -- Rumi
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The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise. -- Rumi
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Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it. -- Rumi
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you? -- Rumi
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. -- Rumi
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Flow down and down in always widening rings of being. -- Rumi
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Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around. -- Rumi
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Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors,
I want burning, burning, burning. -- Rumi
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Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. -- Rumi
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Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another ... It's all praise, and it's all right. -- Rumi
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Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody. -- Rumi
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Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness. -- Rumi
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Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear. -- Rumi
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Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick. -- Rumi
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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. -- Rumi
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A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger ... -- Rumi
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What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached. -- Rumi
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Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love. -- Rumi
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Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God -- Rumi
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The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else ... -- Rumi
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Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work. -- Rumi
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Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. You will not be led astray. -- Rumi
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Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze,
but as they sway they connect at the roots. -- Rumi
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The pathless path opens
whenever you genuinely say, There is no reality but God. There is only God. -- Rumi
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Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints? -- Rumi
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I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You. -- Rumi
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Let's get away from
all the clever humans
who put words in our mouth
let's only say what our hearts desire. -- Rumi
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Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. -- Rumi
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Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. -- Rumi
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Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself. -- Rumi
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What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim. -- Rumi
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When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of your will be gained more quickly. -- Rumi
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Stop learning. Start knowing -- Rumi
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The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities. -- Rumi
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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast. -- Rumi
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The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search. -- Rumi
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Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion. -- Rumi
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Today, you have been inside my eyes all day.
I am confused, upside down.
You are so near and so obvious,
I feel apart from you.
I am so aware of you,
I know nothing. -- Rumi
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Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen. -- Rumi
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A soul which is not clothed
with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence. -- Rumi
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Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing. -- Rumi
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If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away. -- Rumi
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Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions. -- Rumi
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You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'. -- Rumi
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Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck. -- Rumi
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If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire. -- Rumi
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There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire. -- Rumi
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;
you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.
... People fancy they are enjoying themselves,
but they are really tearing out their wings
for the sake of an illusion. -- Rumi
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Be crumbled.
So wild flowers will come up where you are.
You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender. -- Rumi
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My Soul is my Guide,
for my Soul is of that Abode
I will not Speak of the Earthly,
I am of the Unknown. -- Rumi
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Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another. -- Rumi
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The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being. -- Rumi
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Don't look to anyone for your needs,
for the One who created you,
waters you. -- Rumi
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Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other. -- Rumi
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Trade your cleverness for bewilderment. -- Rumi
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In the desire of the One to know Himself,
We exist. -- Rumi
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You are the Soul
and the medicine for what wounds the Soul. -- Rumi
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You are as you are,
an indescribable message on the air. -- Rumi
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I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being. -- Rumi
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A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity -- Rumi
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I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is. -- Rumi
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! -- Rumi
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O Beloved, where is the Beloved? -- Rumi
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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. -- Rumi
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Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. -- Rumi
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You've 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! -- Rumi
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The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander. -- Rumi
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When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music. -- Rumi
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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. -- Rumi
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Forgive: if you never know forgiveness,
You'll never know the blessings that God gives. -- Rumi
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LOVE is
what gives joy
to giving joy. -- Rumi
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. -- Rumi
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Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars. -- Rumi
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. -- Rumi
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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 -- Rumi
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Love is not an emotion, it's your very existence -- Rumi
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Listen . Keep silent .
You are not gods mouthpiece.
Try to be an ear. -- Rumi
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You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know? -- Rumi
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We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust ...
The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. -- Rumi
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In your beauty, how to make poems. -- Rumi
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In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance. -- Rumi
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The hurt you embrace becomes joy. -- Rumi
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Why are you knocking at every door ?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart. -- Rumi
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Of all you see, only love is infinite. -- Rumi
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Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within. -- Rumi
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Deep in the HEART every mystery of spirit is hidden. -- Rumi
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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. -- Rumi
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What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being. -- Rumi
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There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it. -- Rumi
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Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person. -- Rumi
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Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT. -- Rumi
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Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there. -- Rumi
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Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless. -- Rumi
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My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage -- Rumi
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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. -- Rumi
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If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart. -- Rumi
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Your spirit is mingled with mine what touches you, touches me. -- Rumi
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We cannot say much about love at first sight. It happens, and we live in the wake of a new life. -- Rumi
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It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also. -- Rumi
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Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them. -- Rumi
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Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility. -- Rumi
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Your task?
To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light. -- Rumi
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Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another -- Rumi
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Beyond what we wish
and what we fear may happen
we have another life,
as clear and free as a mountain stream. -- Rumi
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Life's waters flow from darkness, Search the darkness, don't run from it. -- Rumi
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight. -- Rumi
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There is an original inside me. -- Rumi
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Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one -- Rumi
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O, happy the soul that saw its own faults. -- Rumi
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Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad. -- Rumi
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Criticism polishes my mirror. -- Rumi
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Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak -- Rumi
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WHEN YOU ARE FREED FROM THIS BODY
YOU WILL ENTER INTO A NEW WORLD
WITHOUT ANY EFFORT. -- Rumi
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You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose? -- Rumi
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Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake. -- Rumi
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It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost. -- Rumi
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Travel brings power and love back into your life. -- Rumi
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The sky itself reels with Love. -- Rumi
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I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover -- Rumi
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Come to the Root of the Root of your Self -- Rumi
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Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you. -- Rumi
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I, you, he, she, we
In the garden of mystic lovers,
these are not true distinctions. -- Rumi
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How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip? -- Rumi
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We must die to become true human beings. -- Rumi
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You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing. -- Rumi
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What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description. -- Rumi
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit. -- Rumi
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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. -- Rumi
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The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you. -- Rumi
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If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak? -- Rumi
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There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies. -- Rumi
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I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. -- Rumi
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Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. -- Rumi
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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul. -- Rumi
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Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. -- Rumi
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She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her. -- Rumi
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Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own. -- Rumi
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Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain. -- Rumi
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Love is nothing but felicity and loving kindness,
It is nothing but gladness and right guidance. -- Rumi
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Every bird will follow it's specie. -- Rumi
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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises -- Rumi
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Don't stray from your Heart's intent. -- Rumi
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Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means death. -- Rumi
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Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you. -- Rumi
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There are lovers content with longing.
I'm not one of them. -- Rumi
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The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it ... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him. -- Rumi
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What you're seeking is seeking you. -- Rumi
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With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart. -- Rumi
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Humble yourself, you'll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you. -- Rumi
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No need to announce the future! This now is it. This. Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by the moment's energy here in your hand. -- Rumi
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I have put the ear of my soul in the widow
of your heart -- Rumi
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My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners. -- Rumi
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Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover. -- Rumi
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If you # love love, look for yourself. -- Rumi
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If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love. -- Rumi
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Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere. -- Rumi
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Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening. -- Rumi
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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. -- Rumi
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Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other. -- Rumi
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Here in my chest a Star came out so clear it drew all Stars into it. -- Rumi
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Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here? -- Rumi
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You could string a hundred endless days together,
My soul would find no comfort from this pain.
You laugh at my tale? You may be educated
But you haven't learned to love till you're insane -- Rumi
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When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon. -- Rumi
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Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty. -- Rumi
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Are you searching for your soul?
Then come out of your own prison. -- Rumi
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Press thy suit, yet with moderation;
A blade of grass cannot pierce a mountain.
If the sum that illumines the world
Were to dry nigher, the world would be consumed -- Rumi
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The universe and the light of the stars come through me. -- Rumi
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The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles. -- Rumi
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Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. -- Rumi
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Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips. -- Rumi
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty. -- Rumi
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The day is conscious of itself. -- Rumi
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O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease. -- Rumi
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If you are here unfaithfully with us, you're causing terrible damage. -- Rumi
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Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here. -- Rumi
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Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words. -- Rumi
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. -- Rumi
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LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity.
Other desires are substitutes
for that way of being. -- Rumi
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Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one. -- Rumi
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A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. -- Rumi
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Love is the water of life, jump into this water. -- Rumi
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The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home
somewhere that is not a where. -- Rumi
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language -- Rumi
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On this path let the heart be your guide. -- Rumi
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You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly. -- Rumi
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Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief. -- Rumi
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We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless. -- Rumi
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Be concentrated and leonine
in the hunt for what is your true nourishment.
Don't be distracted by blandishment-noises,
of any sort. -- Rumi
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Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory. -- Rumi
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When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was. -- Rumi
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. -- Rumi
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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery. -- Rumi
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I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple. -- Rumi
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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. -- Rumi
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I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. -- Rumi
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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there -- Rumi
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Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song. -- Rumi
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Don't fill your bowl With food from every boiling pot you see. Not every joke is humorous, So don't search for meaning Where there isn't one. -- Rumi
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If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything. -- Rumi
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. -- Rumi
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LOVE comes of its own free will,
it can't be learned in any school! -- Rumi
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Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know. -- Rumi
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My home has no address,
my tracks leave no trace.
I am neither body nor soul ...
What can I say?
I belong to the Self of the Beloved -- Rumi
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Your real "country" is where you're heading, not where you are. -- Rumi
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Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, "Here I am!" -- Rumi
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. -- Rumi
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Be an empty page, untouched by words. -- Rumi
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Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now. -- Rumi
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A life without LOVE isn't a life. -- Rumi
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Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring. -- Rumi
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Rub your eyes, and look again at love, with love. -- Rumi
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I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak. -- Rumi
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Infinite mercy flows continually
But you're asleep and can't see it. -- Rumi
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Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl! -- Rumi
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I am so close, I may look distant. -- Rumi
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We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it. -- Rumi
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Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working. -- Rumi
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Love is not love that doesn't love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars. -- Rumi
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What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly? -- Rumi
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There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together -- Rumi
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Every moment, the sunlight
is totally empty and totally full. -- Rumi
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Love is the religion, and the universe is the book. -- Rumi
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Nothing happens by chance no one goes on a quest without a reason without the pull of the magnet there is no action. -- Rumi
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I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow. -- Rumi
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All my feelings have the color you desire to paint. -- Rumi
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Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent. -- Rumi
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Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart. -- Rumi
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Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. -- Rumi
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Love risks everything and asks for nothing. -- Rumi
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Your longing for ME is my message to you,
All your attempts to reach ME,
Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. -- Rumi
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No one can tell if I'm laughing or weeping.
I wonder myself. -- Rumi
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I will conquer the whole world and fill it with myself -- Rumi
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If I hold you with my emotions,
you'll become a wished-for companion. -- Rumi
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Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise. -- Rumi
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Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen! -- Rumi
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Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming -- Rumi
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What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not. -- Rumi
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Enough of words. Come to me without a sound. -- Rumi
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Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved. -- Rumi