Jalal al-Din Rumi quotes and aphorisms, great words of wisdom and poetry of the most famous and influential Persian mystics and spiritual poets in history.
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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A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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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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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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Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
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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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All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.
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All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
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All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
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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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Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.
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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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Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.
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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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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
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Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.
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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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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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Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.
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Be an empty page, untouched by words.
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Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists.
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Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.
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Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.
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Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
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Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
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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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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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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
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Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
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Be with those who help your being.
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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
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Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.
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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
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By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
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Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there.
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But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.
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Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.
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Clean out your ears, don’t listen for what you already know.
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Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.
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Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.
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Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the light.
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.
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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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Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.
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Dance until you shatter yourself.
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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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Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.
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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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Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.
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Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
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Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your heart from the darkness of hate.
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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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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Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.
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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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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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Don’t dismiss the heart, even if it’s filled with sorrow. God’s treasures are buried in broken hearts.
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Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
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Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.
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Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.
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Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.
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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
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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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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that’s why they have so much heartache and sorrow.
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Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.
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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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Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
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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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Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.
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Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
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Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty!
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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
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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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Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.
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Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
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Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.
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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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Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
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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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However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
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I am a child whose teacher is love surely my master won’t let me grow to be a fool.
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I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.
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I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.
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I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.
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I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance. For distance will shield me from pain. I choose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for me in dreams, you have no ends.
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I have found the heart and will never leave this house of light.
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I have neither a soul nor a body, for I come from the very Soul of all souls.
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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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I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
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I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.
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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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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
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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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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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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.
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I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.
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I should be suspicious of what I want.
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
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If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.
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If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
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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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In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.
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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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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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If destiny comes to help you, love will come to meet you. A life without love isn’t a life.
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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
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If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.
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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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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
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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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If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.
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If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.
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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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If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.
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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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Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
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In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.
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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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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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Inside any deep asking is the answering.
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It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
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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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Joy lives concealed in grief.
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Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.
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Knock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, and He’ll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything.
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Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.
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Let silence be the art you practice.
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Let silence take you to the core of life.
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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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Let your teacher be love itself.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
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Let yourself become living poetry.
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Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen.
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Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
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Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.
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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
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Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.
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Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
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Listen to the sound of waves within you.
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Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
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Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
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Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
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Love is the water of life, jump into this water.
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Love is the water of life. Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar-eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the water of life.
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Love risks everything and asks for nothing.
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Love is the bridge between you and everything.
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.
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Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.
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Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
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May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
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May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.
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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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My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
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My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
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My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you.
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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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Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
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Now I am sober and there’s only the hangover and the memory of love.
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O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
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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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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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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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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
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Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
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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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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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On what is fear: Non-acceptance of uncertainty. If we accept that uncertainty, it becomes an adventure!
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One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.
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Open your hands if you want to be held.
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Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
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Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
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Patience is the key to joy.
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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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Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
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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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Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the soul.
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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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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.
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Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.
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Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
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Shine like the whole universe is yours.
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Silence gives answers.
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Sit, be still, and listen.
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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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Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
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Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, “Be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
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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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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.
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Sorrow… It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
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Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.
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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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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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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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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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Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy.
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
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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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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
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The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
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The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
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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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The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The source of now is here.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din 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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
This is how it always is when I finish a poem, a great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
This is the essence of all sciences – that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Thankfulness brings you to the place where the beloved lives.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a true human being.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The soul is here for its own joy.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Those who don’t feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Till man destroys “self” he is no true friend of God.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
To me, nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Touched. How did you get here? Close your eyes… and surrender!
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another… It’s all praise, and it’s all right.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
We are all the same… all the same… longing to find our way back… back to the One… back to the only One!
Jalal al-Din Rumi
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust… The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
What you seek is seeking you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path…Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes – to love more, and be happy.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When you go through a hard period, when everything seems to oppose you, when you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, never give up! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, divine mercy is shown.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Why are you knocking at every door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite love.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Why, when God’s world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You have forgotten the One who doesn’t care about ownership, who doesn’t try to turn a profit from every human exchange.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
You’ve come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don’t know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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