Rumi Quotes

 When I think I am, I find myself worthless. When I think I am not, I find my value. 

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 Stop acting so small.
You are the Universe in Ecstatic Motion. 

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 The wound is the place where the light enters you. 

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 And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. 

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 Why should I be unhappy?
Every parcel of my being is in full bloom. 

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 Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. 

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 Reason is powerless in the expression of love. 

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 These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. 

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 Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light. 

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 You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. 

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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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 Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. 

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 Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. 

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 Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. 

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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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 Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah, It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. 

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 Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds. 

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 Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free. 

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 When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray. 

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 Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. 

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 Being a candle is not easy;
in order to give light one must first burn. 

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 The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. 

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 I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within. 

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 Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. 

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 Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. 

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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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 What you seek is seeking you. 

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 Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought. 

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 The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. 

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 Love is the bridge between you and everything. 

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 The lion is most handsome when looking for food. 

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 The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth. 

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 You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? 

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 You have within you more love than you could ever understand. 

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 Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. 

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 Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. 

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 Dance until you shatter yourself. 

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 To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. 

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 Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. 

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 Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. 

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