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

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

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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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To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

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The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.

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This mirror inside me shows. I can't say what, but I can't not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.

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When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

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At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country.

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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

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You moan, "She left me." "He left me,"
Twenty more will come.

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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

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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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Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

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Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

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The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

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O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

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Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

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Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

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A soul which is not clothed
with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence.

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Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.

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Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

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Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested... That's where the Light enters you.

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Every moment, the sunlight
is totally empty and totally full.

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Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.

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

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