The Wisdom of Rumi

Quotes from the great Sufi poet

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Love is the religion; The Universe is the Book.

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Only love can explain itself.

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Protect yourself from your own thoughts.

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The real Beloved is your beginning and your end. When you find that one, You'll no longer expect anything else

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Ordinary eyes categorize human beings, That one is a Zoroastrian. This one, Muslim. Walk instead with the other vision given you, Your first eyes.

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I came back to you because I could not find The kind and decent things I found in you anywhere else.

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This is love: To fly toward a secret, To cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

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Everyone has someone to take care for them But look at me; I have no one. Take my hand.

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Lay aside caution, it cannot help you against destiny

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You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love.

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In your blackest of moments, wait With no fear

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There is a place born of silence, A place where the whispers of the heart arise. There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

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Treasure is stored among the ruins. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken.

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The cure for the pain is in the pain.

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You have within you more love than you could ever understand.

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Our death is our wedding with eternity.

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