Rumi Quotes - Page 51

• I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

  Rumi

  Heart, Fate, Fighting

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• In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved,
  And our seeking is His seeking
  And our words are His words...
  We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him.
  Sitting by His side, we ask:
  'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

  Rumi

  Life And Love, Shadow, Sides

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• Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

  Rumi

  Power, Looks, World

  "Stephen Hawking’s Grand Book - Where Is the Design?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

  Rumi

  Giving, Reverence

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

  Rumi

  Delight, Noise, Streets

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 1: "The Tavern", p. 2, 1995.

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• We bury our seeds and wait,
  Winter blocks the road,
  Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
  But then green justice tenders a spear

  Rumi

  Block, Flower, Taken

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• Live in the opening where
  there is no door to hide behind.

  Rumi

  Doors, Opening, Behinds

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• It's no good giving my heart and my
  Soul because you already have these.
  So I've brought you a mirror.
  Look at yourself and remember me.

  Rumi

  Heart, Mirrors, Giving

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• Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

  Rumi

  Water, Tree, Thorns

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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 filled. You feel it, don't you?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

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• Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.

  Rumi

  Spring, Thinking, Want

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

  Rumi

  Grief, Mirrors, Lost

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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• From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

  Rumi

  Running, Hurt, Fire

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Shadow And Light Source Both”

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• If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

  Rumi

  Long, Body, Way

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• I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love.

  Rumi

  Spirit

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• Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

  Rumi

  Trying, Ears, Speak

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

  Rumi

  Courage, Challenges, Foundation

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• Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic

  Rumi

  Fun, Narcissistic, Wonderful

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

  Rumi

  Hopeful, Interpretation, True Ones

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• You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Flower, Islamic

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• When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

  Rumi

  World, Invisible, Perceive

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• Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home.

  Rumi

  Horse, Home, Way

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• Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

  Rumi

  Men, Vision, Would Be

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.

  Rumi

  Men, Practice, Two

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.128, Penguin UK

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• There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

  Rumi

  Lovers, Longing

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