Rumi Quotes

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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

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They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.

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The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.

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When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.

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We talk about this and that. There's no rest except on these branching moments.

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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

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Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.

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Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

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If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

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For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it.
Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him.

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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

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The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique,
who is your Beginning and your End.

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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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