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Spiritual Quotes by Rumi

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Rumi says that the clarity of our hearing determines how much of the unseen we notice, like a lake reflecting the moon. He calls silence the true language of God and invites us to sit still and listen, even when the world feels chaotic. He also speaks of love as a pure wine that can calm any storm.

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He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

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Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

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Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

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There are no edges to my loving now.

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You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

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Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

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If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

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Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

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Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it…

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The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal.

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Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you…

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Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart.…

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My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am…

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This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit.…

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Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the…

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The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe…

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I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger…

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If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much,…

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The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest…

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Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting…

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Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people…

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The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want.…

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Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments…

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Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so…

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“i was dead i came alive i was tears i became laughter all because of love when it arrived my temporal life…

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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

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We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

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The soul is here for its own joy.

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Love is a river. Drink from it.

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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

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The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

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“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you…

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But…

“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”