Rumi Quotes

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I don't know where I am.
At times I plunge
to the bottom of the sea,
at times, rise up
like the Sun. At times, the universe is pregnant by me,
at times I give birth to it.

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The lower self does not want anyone to receive anything from anybody else, and if it is aware of something receiving a special boon, it seeks to destroy it.

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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

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Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

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When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!

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The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.

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

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I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

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Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died,
sun and cloud obey.
If you wish to shine like day,
burn up the night of self-existence.
Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

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Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

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If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits,
have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

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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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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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Do not believe in an absurdity
no matter who says it.

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That which God said to the rose,
and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,
He said to my heart,
and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

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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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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah [...] it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

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Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

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To Love is to reach God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to reach God.

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When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

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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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