Rumi quotes - page 9

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky. (Rumi)
We are born of love. Love is our mother. View quote
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. View quote
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He says, "There's nothing left of me. I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight." This is how Hallaj said, I am God, and told the truth!The ruby and the sunrise are one. Be courageous and discipline yourself. Completely become hearing and ear, and wear this sun-ruby as an earring. View quote
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If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? View quote
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"There's no courage", The Prophet said, "before the war has begun." Drunkards vaunt their bravery when you speak of war. But in the blaze of battle they scatter like mice. I'm astonished by the man who wants purity And yet trembles when the harshness of polishing begin... When a man beats a carpet again and again It's not the carpet he's attacking, but the dirt in it. View quote
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Everyday my heart falls deeper in the pain of your sorrow. View quote
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By eating meagerly, you become clever and aware. View quote
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about language, ideas, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense. View quote
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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. View quote
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