Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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More Rumi Quotes
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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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Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane!
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
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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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What you seek is seeking you.
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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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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
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Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
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All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
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You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
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Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
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I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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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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Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, “Be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
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