Rumi Quotes

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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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The result of my life is not more than three words:
I was raw, I became ripe, I burnt—

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This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

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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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A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.

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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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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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Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of more invisible game.
Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo. You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheatfields and mountain passes, and orchards in bloom. At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding."
You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up in the dark with eyes closed. Listen to the answer.
There is no "other world." I only know what I've experienced. You must be hallucinating.

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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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There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

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There is a certain cloud,
impregnated with a
thousand lightnings.
There is my body,
in it an ocean formed of his glory,
all the creation,
all the universes,
all the galaxies,
are lost in it.

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

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

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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

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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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He says, "There's nothing left of me.
I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight." This is how Hallaj said, I am God,
and told the truth! The ruby and the sunrise are one. Be courageous and discipline yourself.
Completely become hearing and ear, and wear this sun-ruby as an earring.

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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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