Rumi Quotes - Page 71

• Dance when you're perfectly free.

  Rumi

  Dance, Dancing, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.345, Penguin UK

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• Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

  Rumi

  Long, Stopping, Half

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• Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever.

  Rumi

  Forever, Lovers, Ends

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• If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

  Rumi

  Spring, Doe, Repeats

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• Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

  Rumi

  Giving Up, Heart, Dancing

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• The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Heart, Body

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• What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

  Rumi

  Spring, Tree, Tiny

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• Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

  Rumi

  Hands, Balance, Would Be

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

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• Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

  Rumi

  Fire, Body, Touched

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.111, Shambhala Publications

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• Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

  Rumi

  Trying, Sorcery, Earth

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• This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Knows

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

  Rumi

  World, Vanishing, Awareness

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• Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

  Rumi

  Dancing, Ears, Daylight

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• 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.

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Two

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?

  Rumi

  Heart, Drunk, Mind

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• Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here.

  Rumi

  Lovers, Beloved

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• I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.

  Rumi

  Flames, Trying, Want

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• I drank water from your spring
  and felt the current take me.

  Rumi

  Spring, Water, Currents

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

  Rumi

  Life, Sea, Long

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• The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.

  Rumi

  Love, Pain, Wall

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• Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

  Rumi

  Half, Letters, Nests

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• I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference

  Rumi

  Sleep, Night, Differences

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• Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Generosity

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• How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Grief, Blue

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• You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

  Rumi

  Running, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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