Rumi Quotes

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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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“We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.”
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“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
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“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
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“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
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“Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.”
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“You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.”
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“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”

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“Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.”
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“Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.”
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“The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.”
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“Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.”
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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.”
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“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
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“One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”
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“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
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“Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.”
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“Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love .”
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“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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“Look at Love...
how it tangles
with the one fallen in love .”
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