Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
RUMIThat 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.
More Rumi Quotes
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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
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The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.
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We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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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 heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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