Rumi Quotes

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All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

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I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

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Lovers think they are looking for each other,
but there is only one search: wandering
This world is wandering that, both inside one
transparent sky. In here
there is no dogma and no heresy.

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My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.

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You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

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Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

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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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If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon,
don't smile contemptuously upon its quest.
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

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

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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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I can't stop pointing
to the beauty. Every moment and place says,
"Put this design in your carpet!"

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Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk.

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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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Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

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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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The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.

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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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From Hallaj, I learned to hunt lions, but I became something hungrier than a lion.

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Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end.

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But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

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Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.

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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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Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

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