Rumi Quotes About Desire
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Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
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let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
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People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
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Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
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People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.
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For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
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There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
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Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
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GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison.
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.
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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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God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.
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Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
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Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
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Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.
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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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There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
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The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.
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Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.
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Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.
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LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.
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Be suspicious of what you want.
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In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.
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I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me.
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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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