Rumi Quotes

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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.

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Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

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Thirst drove me down to the water
where I drank the moon's reflection.

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The here-and-now mountain
is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
blown off into emptiness.

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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.

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Don't look for me in a human shape,
I am inside your looking.

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Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.

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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.

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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!

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When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You,
Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow
From Within Your Own Being.

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If you yearn for holy felicity,
shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

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Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

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The lover never despairs.
For a committed heart everything is possible.

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Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

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What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.

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You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

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Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

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