Rumi Quotes

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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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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 I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

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At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country.

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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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You moan, "She left me." "He left me,"
Twenty more will come.

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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

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But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

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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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Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

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The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

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O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

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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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Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

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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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Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.

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Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

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Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested... That's where the Light enters you.

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Every moment, the sunlight
is totally empty and totally full.

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Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.

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Don't knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren't you?

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

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In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

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The only way to measure a lover
is by the grandeur of the beloved.

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There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

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He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.

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When it's cold and raining,you are more beautiful.And the snow brings meeven closer to your lipsThe inner secret, that which was never born,you are that freshness, and I am with you now.I can't explain the goings,or the comings. You enter suddenly,and I am nowhere again.Inside the majesty

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Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.

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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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Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

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