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.
RUMIThe art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
More Rumi Quotes
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What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
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You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss – that’s how drunk I was.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
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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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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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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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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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Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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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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The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.
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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
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We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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