Rumi Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

  Rumi

  Prayer, Heart, Eye

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• The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.

  Rumi

  Men, Fire, Discipline

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.

  Rumi

  Love, Sweet, Pain

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• He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

  Rumi

  Angel, Animal, Lust

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Ocean, Sea

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• Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.

  Rumi

  Blind, Lost, Found

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• What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.

  Rumi

  Heart, Imaginary, Humans

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• Everything is soul and flowering.

  Rumi

  Soul, Flowering

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• You are the honoured guest,
  Do not weep like a beggar
  For pieces of the world.

  Rumi

  World, Guests, Pieces

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• Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Moon, Everyday

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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.

  Rumi

  Soul, World, Disease

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• Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

  Rumi

  Being Happy, Delight, Jars

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• Live at the empty heart of paradox.
  I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

  Rumi

  Heart, Paradox, Empty

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• With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

  Rumi

  Ocean, Passion, Play

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• I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love

  Rumi

  Passion, Love Passion, My Passion

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• No mirror ever became iron again;
  No bread ever became wheat;
  No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
  Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
  Become the light.

  Rumi

  Courage, Maturity, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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• You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

  Rumi

  Wings, Use, Sufi

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• When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.

  Rumi

  Heart, Despair, Desert

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• Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak

  Rumi

  Heart, Spirit, Speak

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• The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Children, Intelligent

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• Because of your love I have broken with my past

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Past, Broken

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• You transform all those who are touched by You.

  Rumi

  Touched

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• Go my friend
  bestow your love
  even on your enemies
  if you touch their hearts
  what do you think will happen.

  Rumi

  Love, Attitude, Heart

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• Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

  Rumi

  Death, Afterlife, Religion

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