701 Quotes by Rumi (Page 2 of 5)

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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

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There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.

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Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.
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Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.

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Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

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When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do, will become admirable.

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A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?

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Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.

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Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

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Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

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If you yearn for holy felicity,
shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

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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 this time that your living is firewood.

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Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.

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Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.

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Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

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From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I'm a stone, but through you, I am a gem!

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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 back, I'll find it at home.

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.

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Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.

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Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.

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Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.

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A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.

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Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

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Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.

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Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

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I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.

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If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

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The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.

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Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever.
I know that everything I give you comes back to me.
So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me.

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If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?

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Look as long as you can at the friend you love,
no matter whether that friend is moving away from you
or coming back toward you.

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The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

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God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

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Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

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Disharmony prevails when you confuse
Lust with LOVE, while the distance
between the two is endless!

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The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.

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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

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A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.

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Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.

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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.

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We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

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The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!

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While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

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Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

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Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'

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For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

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You are more valuable than both heaven and earth.
What else can I say?
You don't know your own worth.

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There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell.
Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.

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Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?

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Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says this truth, you harvest what you sow.
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Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow. With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

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Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

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If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

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Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

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Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt.' Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love.' Peel the layers if you care!

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When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge.

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In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life.
I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment.
But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.

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Your task?
To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.

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What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?

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I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence.

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Look at me as many times as you wish,
but you won't get to know me!
Since you have last seen me,
I've changed a hundred times!

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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.

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You erased my famine, unpicked my anger
Your energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;
Now I am alive with the ore of words pouring
From my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.

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Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.
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Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

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Nearness to God is common to us all,
Because we're all created and sustained by God,
But only the authentically noble
Possess and live that nearness
That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

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Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.

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This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

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Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

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Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

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There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

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You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

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People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.
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People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

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When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

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Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

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The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.

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You were sent to unite people
You were not been sent to divide people.

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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

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Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

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Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.

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The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.
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The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

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Raise your words, not your voice.
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Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunders.

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To Love is to be God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to be God.

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The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

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There's a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

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Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

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No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

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Don't run away from grief, o' soul Look for the remedy inside the pain because the rose came from the thorn and the ruby came from a stone.

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All religions. All this singing. One sone. Peace be with you.
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All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun's light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it's still one light.

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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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In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt -- they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.

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When we talk about God, we're like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.

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There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

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From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

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The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.

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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

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The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.
If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul.
If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

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Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.

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Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, love is the diamond.
They have together since the beginning of time-
Side by side, step by step.

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My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

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No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

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If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.

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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 walls?

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Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself.

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If i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow.

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This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.

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If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

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I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

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Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one.

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Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

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The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.
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