Rumi Quotes

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• Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.
• A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.
• Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
• My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
• Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.
• How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.
• What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can…
• This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
• And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.
• In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
• Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.
• Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
• Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
• Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.
• I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.
• I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.
• You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by…
• Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.
• Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go,…
• Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

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