Persian Poetry Quotes

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

  Rumi

  Thinking, Dust, Essence

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• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 26, 2006.

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• Be with those who help your being.

  Rumi

  Healing, Helping

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

  Rumi

  Healing, I Hate You, Roots

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• Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Sky

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• Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.

  Unknown

  Love, Inspirational, Good Morning

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• Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Beautiful, Spiritual, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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