Rumi Quotes

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Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

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Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

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This dance is the joy of existence. I am filled with you.
Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul.
There's no room for lack of trust, or trust.
Nothing in this existence but that existence.

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Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don't claim them. Feel the artistry
moving through, and be silent.

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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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Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

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

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The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

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Many have been led astray by the Qur'an:
by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well.
There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man,
for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

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Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

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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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Whether one moves
slowly or with speed,
the one who
is a seeker
will be a finder.

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Learn from Ali how to fight
without your ego participating.
God's lion did nothing
that didn't originate
from his deep center.

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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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The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks
is a minor hero
compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

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What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.

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Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.

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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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Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

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The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

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

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

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We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.

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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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