Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
RUMIWhen you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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Dance until you shatter yourself.
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Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
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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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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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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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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
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Look for the answer inside your question.
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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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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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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.
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Try something different. Surrender.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss – that’s how drunk I was.
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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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She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
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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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The cure for pain is in the pain.
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No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping.
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Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
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