Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
RUMIThe quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
More Rumi Quotes
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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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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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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
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The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof.
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
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You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
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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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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
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There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion.
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Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
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Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.
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