Rumi quotes - page 2

Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it. (Rumi)
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. View quote
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If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak. View quote
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If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself. View quote
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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy. View quote
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I always thought that I was me - but no, I was you and never knew it. View quote
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. View quote
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He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal. View quote
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Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul. View quote
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You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open. View quote
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Whoever gives reverence receives reverence. (Rumi)
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize. View quote
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When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured. View quote
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You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life? View quote
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Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us. View quote
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I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it. View quote
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This dance is the joy of existence. I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence. View quote
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Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need. View quote
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The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please. View quote
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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. View quote
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. (Rumi)
Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition. View quote
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. View quote
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Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top. View quote
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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all. View quote
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