You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin


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JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Did I Not Say To You

Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this...
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was.
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There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
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When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a...
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نحن من أولئك الذين يفرحون دون ذهب أو ثروات
نحن هادئو...
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إن كان حزني من أجلك يميتني كل لحظة، لا تميتني أنت.
ات�...
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Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let...
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge.
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f...
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A wealth you cannot imagine
flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say.
Be...
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True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the ...
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İstediğin bir şey olmuyorsa ya daha iyisi olacağı için ya da gerçekten de olmaması gerektiğ...
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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
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I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as an...
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Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
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You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.
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I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warm...
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It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hu...
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There...
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Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he ...
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They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no wal...
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought a...
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There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hope...
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Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had th...
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Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be...
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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the co...
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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
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We are born of love; Love is our mother.
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to ...
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You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you...
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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grow...
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This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning...
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When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot i...
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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come...
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Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the l...
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, a...
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If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
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What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastri...
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Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badl...
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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
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The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo...
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The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and ...
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I spent millons of years in the world
of inorganic things
as a star, as a rock...
Then I di...
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I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ...
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You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your ple...
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The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those ...
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Let the beauty we love be what we do.
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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much h...
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Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself....
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Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
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Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence ...
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every ...
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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can...
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However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my ...
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy...
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. L...
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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
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May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through...
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left ...
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The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
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Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
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