Rumi Quotes

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All the world Loves You,
but You are nowhere to be found,
Hidden and yet... completely obvious!

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The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique,
who is your Beginning and your End.

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The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.

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I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.

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Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

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I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

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I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.

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If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

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The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

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The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

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A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger...

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Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.

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A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart!
No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!

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I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

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Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside.

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This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West....
My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

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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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A new moon teaches gradualness
and deliberation and how one gives birth
to oneself slowly. Patience with small details
makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
What nine months of attention does for an embryo
forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness

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While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

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When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

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The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.

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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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When it's cold and raining,you are more beautiful.And the snow brings meeven closer to your lipsThe inner secret, that which was never born,you are that freshness, and I am with you now.I can't explain the goings,or the comings. You enter suddenly,and I am nowhere again.Inside the majesty

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The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

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In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

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The only way to measure a lover
is by the grandeur of the beloved.

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There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

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He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.

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For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

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