I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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More Rumi Quotes
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Look for the answer inside your question.
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Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
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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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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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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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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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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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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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We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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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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Give your weakness to one who helps.
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Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.
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The Ego is a veil between humans and God.
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