You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
RUMIThe breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
More Rumi Quotes
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
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I see my beauty in you.
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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 lion is most handsome when looking for food.
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Like a shadow, I am and I am not.
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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