Rumi Quotes

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Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

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Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart.

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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

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Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!

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Lovers think they are looking for each other,
but there is only one search: wandering
This world is wandering that, both inside one
transparent sky. In here
there is no dogma and no heresy.

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Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of more invisible game.
Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo. You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheatfields and mountain passes, and orchards in bloom. At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding."
You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up in the dark with eyes closed. Listen to the answer.
There is no "other world." I only know what I've experienced. You must be hallucinating.

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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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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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There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!

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This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

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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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