Rumi Quotes

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• There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music....…
• No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.
• He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.
• Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains....
• You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times…
• What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food…
• Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
• That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.
• Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.
• Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body…
• You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.
• You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.
• I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of…
• Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.
• If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.
• In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this…
• And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.
• I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.
• And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.
• Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.

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