Rumi Quotes

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along

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When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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Everyone was made to do their (Beloved's) work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust

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I was like a man taking a candle to look for the sun.

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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment
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Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation
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The hurt you embrace becomes joy.
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You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
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Surrender to Grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave
till it gets to shore.
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It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.
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No prayer is complete without presence.
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The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.
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There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.
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You think the shadow is the substance.
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