If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
RUMIPain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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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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Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.
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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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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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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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You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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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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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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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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Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof.
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Try something different. Surrender.
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
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Like a shadow, I am and I am not.
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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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Every story is us.
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