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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Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

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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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Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.

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

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Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

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Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.

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Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, Here I am!

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Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

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Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.

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Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

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You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

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What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.

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Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

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The lover never despairs.
For a committed heart everything is possible.

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Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

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If you yearn for holy felicity,
shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

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When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You,
Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow
From Within Your Own Being.

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Look at me as many times as you wish,
but you won't get to know me!
Since you have last seen me,
I've changed a hundred times!

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Walk to the well.
Turn as the earth and the moon turn,
circling what they love.
Whatever circles comes from the center.

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Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

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Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.

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Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
Passion is the elixir that renews:
how can there be weariness
when passion is present?
Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

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Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

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