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Rumi Quotes: 94

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
What you seek is seeking you.
The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.They're in each other all along.
The Illuminated Rumi
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Forget safety.Live where you fear to live.Destroy your reputation.Be notorious.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
The Essential Rumi
Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
I want to see you.Know your voice.Recognize you when youfirst come 'round the corner.Sense your scent when I come into a room you've just left.Know the lift of your heel,the glide of your foot.Become familiar with the way you purse your lipsthen let them part, just the slightest bit,when I lean in to your spaceand kiss you.I want to know the joy of how you whisper "more
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
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?
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?
The Essential Rumi
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.
The Essential Rumi
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
When you go through a hard period,When everything seems to oppose you,... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,NEVER GIVE UP!Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
The Essential Rumi
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon't go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want.Don't go back to sleep!People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and openDon't go back to sleep!
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.