Rumi

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to…

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Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

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I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.

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Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

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“Nisam došao ovdje sa svojom voljom i ne mogu na taj način otići, ko god me je doveo ovdje, morat će me…

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Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.

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

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There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.

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When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

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“The grief you cry out from draws you toward union. Your pure sadness that wants help is the secret cup.”

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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

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God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

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For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

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The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and…

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You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to…

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There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

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Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

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Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

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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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Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.

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What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.

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The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

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The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique, who is your Beginning and your End.

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Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.

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“We know that kings often hide their treasure in ruins, but this field of rubble is here because of its great value.”

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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

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Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

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“Atom, you want to flee the sun? Madman, give up! You're a jar; fate's a stone- kick against it, and you''l waste…

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All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!

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Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.

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Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

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“Očistio sam radionicu unutar samog sebe i odbacio sve idole Shvativši vrijednost ludosti, postao sam slobodan od misli”

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Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

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Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

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Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

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Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

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Nothing can nourish the soul but LIGHT. Rid yourself of material needs and be set FREE.

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Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

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