Rumi quotes - page 7

A prince is just a conceit until he does something with generosity. (Rumi)
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. View quote
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Listen to the answer. There is no "other world." I only know what I've experienced. You must be hallucinating. View quote
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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. View quote
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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. View quote
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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. View quote
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Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. View quote
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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? View quote
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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast. (Rumi)
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. View quote
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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers. View quote
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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. View quote
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. View quote
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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. View quote
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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. View quote
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own. View quote
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When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine. View quote
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. View quote
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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. (Rumi)
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. View quote
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This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives. View quote
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The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes. View quote
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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. View quote
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