I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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.
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
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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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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.
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Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.
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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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Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane!
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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
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The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.
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The cure for pain is in the pain.
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
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Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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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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Beauty surrounds us.
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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.
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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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Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
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