Rumi Quotes - Page 53

• If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

  Rumi

  Real, Heart, Giving

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• 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.

  Rumi

  Sunset, Sleep, Rivers

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.98, Lulu.com

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• He who tastes not, knows not.

  Rumi

  Experience, Taste, Knows

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• Flowers open every night
  across the sky, a breathing peace,
  and sudden flame catching.

  Rumi

  Flower, Night, Flames

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• Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.

  Rumi

  Return, Chests

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Ode 2357”

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• Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

  Rumi

  Beach, Powerful, Roots

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• If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;
  For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Garden, Feet

  "Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi". Book translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz. Divan 1740:1-3, 1998.

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• This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

  Rumi

  Valentines Day, Sky, Making Love

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

  Rumi

  Love You, I Love Myself, Love Myself

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• Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

  Rumi

  Zero, Fire, Light

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• In truth, everything and everyone
  is a shadow of the Beloved.

  Rumi

  Shadow, Beloved

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• The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
  In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.

  Rumi

  Might, Fruit, Facts

  "Teachings of Rumi". Book by Andrew Harvey, 1999.

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• Your heart mirrors not His love,
  Rusty with your sins it is,
  Remove this rust and you shall
  Perceive how Glorious He is.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

  Rumi

  Generosity, Trying, Compost

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• There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

  Rumi

  Peace, Passion, Eye

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• If you yearn for holy felicity,
  shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

  Rumi

  Heart, Arrogance, Holy

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.

  Rumi

  Giving, Water, Accepting

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• But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

  Rumi

  Wings, Spheres, Clarity

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

  Rumi

  Dirty, Wine, Mind

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• Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

  Rumi

  Funny, Motivation, Positive Thinking

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• Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

  Rumi

  Moving, Wind, Lightning

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• The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

  Rumi

  Covenant With God, Agreement, Judging

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• People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

  Rumi

  Hypocrite, People, Desire

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• I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.

  Rumi

  Moon, Heaven, Soul

  Jalal al-Din Rumi (2010). “Mystical Poems of Rumi”, p.277, University of Chicago Press

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• What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Soul, Fool

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