The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
RUMILet the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
More Rumi Quotes
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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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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Run 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.
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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The Ego is a veil between humans and God.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
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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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The cure for pain is in the pain.
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
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I see my beauty in you.
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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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They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?
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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, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
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Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
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Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.
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The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
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Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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