Rumi Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.

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#3. We have fallen into the sugar shaker.
We are the ground beneath you.
Let someone else describe the sky.
Hold us in silence.
Do no throw us back
into some discussion.

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#4. To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life.

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#5. Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.

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#6. Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?

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#7. Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.

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#8. The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

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#9. All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.

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#10. The Law of Wonder rules my life at last,
... I burn each second of my life to Love
Each second of my life burns out in Love
In each leaping second Love lives afresh.

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#11. Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty.

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#12. I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless?

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#13. I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

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

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#15. Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

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#16. If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.

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#17. Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

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#18. I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

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#19. Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

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#20. I say, Show me the way.
You say, Put your head
under your feet.
That way you rise through the stars
and see a hundred different ways
to be with me.

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#21. I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less ...

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#22. I profess the religion of love,
Love is my religion and my faith.
My mother is love
My father is love
My prophet is love
My God is love
I am a child of love
I have come only to speak of love.

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

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#24. What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.

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#25. The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.

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#26. Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

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

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#28. The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

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#29. Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.

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#30. On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

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#31. However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations ... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

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#32. Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

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#33. The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

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#34. Be with those who help your being.

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#35. Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.

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

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#37. Revile those who flatter you.

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#38. With love you don't bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face.

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#39. Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.
... Oh, you cannot go, without me.

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#40. What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

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#41. That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

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#42. What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

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#43. Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!

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#44. In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here.

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#45. I love you neither with my heart
nor with my mind.
My heart might stop
my mind can forget.
I love you with
my soul because
my soul never stops
or forgets.
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#46. Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life

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#47. All is known in the sacredness of silence.

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#48. Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!

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#49. What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

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#50. Live at the empty heart of paradox.
I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

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#51. Some nights stay up till dawn,
as the moon sometimes does for the sun.
Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way
of a well, then lifted out into light.

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#52. Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

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#53. I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.

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#54. Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

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#55. Why are you knocking at every door ?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart.

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#56. A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

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#57. You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

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#58. And watch two men washing clothes,
one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.
Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.

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#59. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

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#60. 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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#61. Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

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#62. Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

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#63. The water has a Water that is driving it;
The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.

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#64. It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

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#65. If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

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#66. In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

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#67. There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

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#68. You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

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#69. Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

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#70. Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.

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#71. Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

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#72. Be silent now. Say fewer and fewer praise poems. Let yourself become living poetry.

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#73. Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.

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#74. Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

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#75. When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.

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#76. Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them.

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#77. If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn't slumber so deeply in that house of clay. Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and always have been. Didn't you know?

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#78. Only the soul knows what love is.

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#79. Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

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#80. If you yearn for holy felicity,
shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

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#81. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,

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#82. Come with me while the wine shop is still open.
We are dizzy with meeting each other.

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#83. The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.

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#84. The Water said to the dirty one, "Come here."
The dirty one said, "I am too ashamed."
The water replied, "How will your shame be washed away without me?

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#85. If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

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#86. Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

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#87. What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

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#88. 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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#89. Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

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#90. Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love.

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#91. Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.

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#92. If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

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#93. Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

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#94. Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

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#95. I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.

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#96. Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

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#97. No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

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#98. Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance.
You will come to see that all evolves us.

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#99. With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean of God?

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#100. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

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