Rumi Quotes

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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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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

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If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

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Didn't I tell you?
They will accuse you of all the wrongdoings,
they will call you ugly names,
they will make you forget
it is me, who is the source of your happiness.

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The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.

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You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

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Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

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A soul which is not clothed
with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence.

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The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.

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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

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Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

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Didn't I tell you?
I am an ocean, you are a fish;
do not go to the dry land,
it is me, who is your comforting body of water.

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This mirror inside me shows. I can't say what, but I can't not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.

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When in Love,
body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.

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All the particles of the World are in Love
and looking for Lovers.

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

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

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With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

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Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.

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As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this wine. With a skinfull of this, Sir, would you rush out to commit economics?

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I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

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Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.

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Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.

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The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

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