Rumi Quotes

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Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

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Whether one moves
slowly or with speed,
the one who
is a seeker
will be a finder.

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A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.

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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.

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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.

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A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.

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I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique,
who is your Beginning and your End.

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All the world Loves You,
but You are nowhere to be found,
Hidden and yet... completely obvious!

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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.

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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.

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Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.

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Every tree, every growing thing as it grows,
says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

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Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

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Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.

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Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, Here I am!

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Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

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Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

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Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

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Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.

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Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

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Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
Passion is the elixir that renews:
how can there be weariness
when passion is present?
Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

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