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World Quotes by Rumi

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Rumi tells us that the world’s power is small compared to the shining inner life inside each person. He calls every soul precious and reminds us that the source of all things lives within us. He also says the heart knows things the mind can’t see, and hope lives in the invisible.

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Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.

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The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

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I will conquer the whole world and fill it with myself

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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

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And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.

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Love, the life-giving garden of this world.

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I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

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Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

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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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The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

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I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.

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Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

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Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the…

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World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

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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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You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.

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Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the…

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Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside…

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To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of…

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Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover…

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Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these…

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I am a bird of God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty world For a day or two they…

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Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall…

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Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is…

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Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set…

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My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on…

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Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid…

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From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try…

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The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who…

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Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful…

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Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming…

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We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are…

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I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am…

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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…

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Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.

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Dance from here to the other world-and don't stop.

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Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

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Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe

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Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

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The world is a playground, and death is the night.

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I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

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

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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.”