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277 Enlightening Rumi Quotes On Personal Happiness and Friendship
While we’re into the motivational content here at Execute Resources, there are times when we need to find ourselves aligned within our spiritual quest. It’s through his words that we’re able to find happiness, friendship and impact.
His words evoke a sense of beauty, power and resilience that exists within each and every one of us. Not only that, but we’re able to find happiness and harmonious friendships that serve us.
Let these words from Rumi be your beacon of light in these dark times:
1. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
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2. If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
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3. All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
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4. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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5. Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.
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6. Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.
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7. These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
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8. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
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9. We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
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10. Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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11. What you seek is seeking you.
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12. When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
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13. The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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14. Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
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15. Shine like the whole universe is yours.
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16. Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
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17. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
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18. I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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19. Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
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20. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
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21. Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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22. Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
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23. Clean out your ears, don’t listen for what you already know.
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24. Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.
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25. This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
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26. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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27. Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
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28. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
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29. Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.
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30. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.
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31. Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
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32. What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.
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33. If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.
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34. Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
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35. The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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36. Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, divine mercy is shown.
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37. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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38. Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.
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39. The source of now is here.
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40. When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
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41. On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
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42. Love is the bridge between you and everything.
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43. How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.
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44. Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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45. Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.
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46. There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
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47. I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.
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48. Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.
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49. What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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50. The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.
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51. When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
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52. Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.
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53. The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
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54. Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy.
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55. The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.
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56. There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.
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57. Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.
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58. Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.
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59. Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
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60. Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite love.
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61. When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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62. If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.
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63. When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.
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64. Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.
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65. Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.
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66. Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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67. I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
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68. A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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69. My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you.
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70. Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.
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71. This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
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72. Let the beauty we love be what we do.
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73. If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.
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74. It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
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75. I have found the heart and will never leave this house of light.
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76. Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists.
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77. Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.
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78. There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.
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79. Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.
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80. Let silence take you to the core of life.
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81. The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.
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82. In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.
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83. Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.
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84. Let silence be the art you practice.
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85. Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
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86. By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
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87. Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.
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88. With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.
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89. It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
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90. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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91. On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter.
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92. I should be suspicious of what I want.
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93. If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.
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94. Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.
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95. The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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96. Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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97. You have forgotten the One who doesn’t care about ownership, who doesn’t try to turn a profit from every human exchange.
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98. Silence gives answers.
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99. What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
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100. I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set me free.’
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101. Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.
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102. Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
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103. A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
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104. Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
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105. Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
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106. Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.
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107. Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.
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108. Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
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109. Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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110. A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
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111. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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112. The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
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113. The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
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114. I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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115. Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.
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116. This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
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117. With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.
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118. Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
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119. Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you’re looking at the light with infinite eyes.
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120. 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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121. The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
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122. The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
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123. Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset.
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124. Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything.
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125. I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
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126. There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds.
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127. When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes – to love more, and be happy.
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128. Love is the water of life, jump into this water.
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129. Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
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130. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
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131. Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen.
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132. Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
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133. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don’t harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don’t teach what you do not know.
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134. All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
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135. Joy lives concealed in grief.
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136. Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.
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137. When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
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138. The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.
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139. Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.
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140. Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
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141. What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
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142. Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
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143. Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.
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144. If destiny comes to help you, love will come to meet you. A life without love isn’t a life.
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145. We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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146. The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.
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147. There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.
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148. The soul is here for its own joy.
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149. When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.
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150. Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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151. My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
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152. Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.
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153. Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
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154. Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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155. Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
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156. You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.
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157. A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.
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158. Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty!
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159. Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?
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160. Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.
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161. Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.
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162. That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
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163. When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
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164. When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.
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165. Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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166. Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.
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167. Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings.
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168. The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.
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169. Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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170. The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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171. Open your hands if you want to be held.
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172. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
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173. Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.
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174. Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.
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175. Be an empty page, untouched by words.
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176. Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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177. My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. I will meet you there.
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178. The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a true human being.
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179. In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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180. Thankfulness brings you to the place where the beloved lives.
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181. Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
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182. Listen to the sound of waves within you.
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183. There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.
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184. Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.
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185. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
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186. Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
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187. I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.
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188. This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
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189. Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.
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190. Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
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191. If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.
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192. Why are you knocking at every door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.
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193. When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.
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194. I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
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195. Oh! Joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.
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196. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
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197. What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?
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198. Dance until you shatter yourself.
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199. Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?
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200. Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.
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201. Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
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202. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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203. My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
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204. The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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205. May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
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206. We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.
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207. Inside any deep asking is the answering.
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208. You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
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209. You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
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210. Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
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211. The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.
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212. Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.
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213. When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.
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214. Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.
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215. There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.
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216. Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
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217. All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
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218. Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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219. Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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220. If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.
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221. Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
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222. Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own soul. Enter the ruins of your heart and learn the meaning of humility.
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223. In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
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224. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.
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225. If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.
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226. Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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227. The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
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228. There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.
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229. Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
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230. Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
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231. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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232. Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.
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233. Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
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234. Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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235. Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
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236. Every need brings what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears.
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237. Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
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238. Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
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239. In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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240. Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
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241. This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
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242. Sit, be still, and listen.
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243. Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.
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244. The wound is the place where the light enters you.
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245. Patience is the key to joy.
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246. Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.
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247. Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there.
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248. A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union. Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.
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249. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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250. Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.
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251. Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.
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252. Don’t dismiss the heart, even if it’s filled with sorrow. God’s treasures are buried in broken hearts.
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253. Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the light.
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254. Now I am sober and there’s only the hangover and the memory of love.
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255. Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
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256. Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.
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257. Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.
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258. Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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259. Be kind to yourself, dear – to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.
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260. If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
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261. I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.
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262. Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.
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263. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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264. But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.
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265. Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
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266. In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.
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267. This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
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268. The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.
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269. When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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270. Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.
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271. You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
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272. Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
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273. Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that’s why they have so much heartache and sorrow.
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274. Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.
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275. Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.
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276. There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.
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277. Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
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