When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
RUMIRun from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.
More Rumi Quotes
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.
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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
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The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.
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Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss – that’s how drunk I was.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping.
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Let silence take you to the core of life.
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Every story is us.
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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
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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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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
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The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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