Rumi Quotes

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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.

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You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

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We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen,
For we are the companions of Religions Messenger.
Ee have a way from the house to the garden,
we are the neighbor of the cypress and jasmine.
Every day we come to the garden
and see a hundred blossoms.
In order to scatter them among the lovers,
we will our robes to overflowing. Behold our words!
They are the fragrance of those roses -
we are the rosebush of certainty's rose garden.

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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.

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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

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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.

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To Love is to reach 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 reach God.

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Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

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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.

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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.

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Do not believe in an absurdity
no matter who says it.

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Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.

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Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don't claim them. Feel the artistry
moving through, and be silent.

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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits,
have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

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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.

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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.

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Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died,
sun and cloud obey.
If you wish to shine like day,
burn up the night of self-existence.
Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

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I always thought that
I was me — but no,
I was you
and never knew it.

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This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

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The result of my life is not more than three words:
I was raw, I became ripe, I burnt—

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Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.

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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.

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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.

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