Rumi Quotes

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I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know....First, Last, Outer, Inner, only that breath breathing. HUMAN BEING.

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A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart!
No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!

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The water has a Water that is driving it;
The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.

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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.

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When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

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While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

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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.
What nine months of attention does for an embryo
forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness

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And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter.
We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West....
My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

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This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

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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.

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I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

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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.

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Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

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The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

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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.

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Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.

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Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

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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.

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Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

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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.

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There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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If I Separated Myself
From You... I Would Turn
Entirely Thorn!

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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.

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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?

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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.

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