Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
RUMII want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
More Rumi Quotes
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I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
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Love is the bridge between you and everything.
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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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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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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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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 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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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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Dance until you shatter yourself.
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
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The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.
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