Rumi Quotes

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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

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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.

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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.

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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

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The place that Solomon made to worship in,
called the Far Mosque, is not built of earth
and water and stone, but of intention and wisdom
and mystical conversation and compassionate action.

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

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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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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

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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.

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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.
This gathering is more like a drunken party,
full of tricksters, fools,
mad men and mad women.
This is a gathering of Lovers.

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Didn't I tell you
not to be satisfied with the veil of this world?
I am the master illusionist,
it is me, who is the welcoming banner at the gate of your contentment.

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With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

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