Rumi quote: "The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle."

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your ple...
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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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The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those ...
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Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence ...
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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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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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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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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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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in fron...
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of...
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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
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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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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badl...
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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 fill...
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كم هم سعداء أولئك الذين يتخلصون من الأغلال التى ترسخ به...
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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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دع العاشق في كونه
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إخفِض صوتك : فالزهر يُنبته المطر، لا الرعد
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ما تبحث عنه يبحث عنك
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All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls....
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When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Prais...
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Infinite mercy flows continually
But you're asleep and can't see it.
The sleeper's robe go...
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Words are ways we add up breath, counting stress and syllable with our exacting musical knack that t...
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THE ONE THING YOU MUST DO

There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. I...
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We watch a sunlight dust dance,
and we try to be that lively,
but nobody knows what musi...
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken...
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different ...
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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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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
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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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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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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
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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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Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.
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الموسيقى غذاء كل المحبين.
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وضع الله أمامنا سلّمًا علينا أن نتسلقه درجةً إثر درجة RUMI

أنتَ في القيمة أسمى من العَالَمَيْن كليهما
فماذا يم�...
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If you want money more than anything,
you will be bought and sold.

If you have a gre...
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When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, whe...
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.
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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
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Brother, stand the pain.
Escape the poison of your impulses.
The sky will bow to your beau...
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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inwa...
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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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Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself....
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May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
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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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If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
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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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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. -Rumi.
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Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.
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قلتُ: أشتهي وصلك
قال: ثمن الوصال ما هو إلا روحك
فهت...
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Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worr...
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Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of yo...
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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ON THE DAY I DIE

On the day I die, when I'm being carried
toward the grave, don't we...
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Every part of you has a secret language. Your hands and your feet say what you have done. Every need...
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.
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On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of be...
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عشق جان است
عشقِ تو
جان تر

"مولوی
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The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is b...
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own ...
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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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We are born of love; Love is our mother.
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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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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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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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Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
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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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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 art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere; they have lived within each other for ages.
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Look for the answer inside your question.
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العشق نبع، فانغمر
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The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
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Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance insid...
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You left ground and sky weeping,
mind and soul full of grief.

No one can take your p...
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every experience will fill with immediacy. Because I love this, I am never bored. Beauty constantly ...
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're sp...
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But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms RUMI

The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation. RUMI

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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Heartsick, heartbroken—
To know love is to know pain.
What could be more common?
E...
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Let the beauty we love be what we do.
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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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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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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through...
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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
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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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I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You...
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Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
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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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This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning...
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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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When you see your true beauty, you will be the idol of yourself
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Heartsick, heartbroken—To know love is to know pain.What could be more common?Even so, each br...
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Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
W...
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and...
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I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I...
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We are the the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the mo...
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CUP AND OCEAN

These forms we seem to be are cups floating in an ocean of living conscious...
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Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.
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You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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A Lion that hunts for survival in the jungle does not envy the one being fed in a zoo
SUHAIB RUMI

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time...
LALUDDIN RUMI

As for your vision,
& what is or isn't written,
Stay faithful until it's fateful.
SUHAIB RUMI

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fi...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Woman is the light of God.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind t...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to b...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for th...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wavetill it gets to shore.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badl...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love .
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Oh soul,you worry too much.You have seen your own strength.You have seen your own beauty.You have se...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much h...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”

“In prayer all are equal.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

I break out laughing. I frown.
I yell and scream. Sometimes,
if one jokes and giggles,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Love calls - everywhere and always.
We're sky bound.
Are you coming?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this wor...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

How do the birds make great sky circles... They fall and falling they are given wings.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

A shadow cannot ignorethe sun that all day creates and movesit.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the su...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Joy lives concealed in grief.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'ro...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

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The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

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