Rumi Quotes About Sufi Mystic
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Dance when you're perfectly free.
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Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
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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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Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
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In your light I learn how to love.
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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
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I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know. ...First, Last, Outer, Inner, only that breath breathing. HUMAN BEING.
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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.
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I was you and never knew it.
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You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.
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Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
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In your beauty, how to make poems.
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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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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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
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O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.
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