Mulana Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes

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There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.

You feel it, don't you?”

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“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled"

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“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

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“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” _______________________________________________________________________

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” _______________________________________________________________________

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

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“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

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“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.”

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“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

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“silence is the language of god,

all else is poor translation.”

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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

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“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

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“I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you

first 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 lips

then let them part,

just the slightest bit,

when I lean in to your space

and kiss you.

I want to know the joy

of how you whisper

"more”

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“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” ______________________________________________________________________

“Knock, And He'll open the door

Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun

Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens

Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”

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“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 insomnia!

And the difference between them.”

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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.''

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“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

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“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” ______________________________________________________________________

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

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“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''

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“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

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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.”

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“What you seek is seeking you.”

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“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing

and rightdoing there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass

the world is too full to talk about.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”

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“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”

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“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.”

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“Be empty of worrying.

Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison

When the door is so wide open?”

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“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

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“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.”

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“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy''

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“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”

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“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

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“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

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“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

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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.”

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“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”

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“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”

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“Sit, be still, and listen,

because you're drunk

and we're at

the edge of the roof.”

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“I have lived on the lip

of insanity, wanting to know reasons,

knocking on a door. It opens.

I've been knocking from the inside.”

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“Be melting snow.

Wash yourself of yourself.”

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“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”

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“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

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“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

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“Take someone who doesn't keep score,

who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,

who has not the slightest interest even

in his own personality: he's free.”

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“People want you to be happy.

Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings

and free your soul of jealousy,

you and everyone around you

would fly up like doves.”

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“Respond to every call

that excites your spirit.”

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“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!”

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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

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“But listen to me. For one moment

quit being sad. Hear blessings

dropping their blossoms

around you''

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“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you''

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“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

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“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”

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“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

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“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

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“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.”

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“You try to be faithful

And sometimes you're cruel.

You are mine. Then, you leave.

Without you, I can't cope.

And when you take the lead,

I become your footstep.

Your absence leaves a void.

Without you, I can't cope.

You have disturbed my sleep,

You have wrecked my image.

You have set me apart.

Without you, I can't cope.”

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“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you

Don'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 open

Don't go back to sleep!”

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“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.”

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“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”

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“Oh soul,

you worry too much.

You have seen your own strength.

You have seen your own beauty.

You have seen your golden wings.

Of anything less,

why do you worry?

You are in truth

the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

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“You wander from room to room

Hunting for the diamond necklace

That is already around your neck!”

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“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.”

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“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”

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“An eye is meant to see things.

The soul is here for its own joy.

A head has one use: For loving a true love.

Feet: To chase after.

Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,

for learning what men have done and tried to do.

Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind

when it only wants to see why.

A lover is always accused of something.

But when he finds his love, whatever was lost

in the looking comes back completely changed.”

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“If you desire healing,

let yourself fall ill

let yourself fall ill.”

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“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.”

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“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”

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“You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.”

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“Do you know what you are?

You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.

You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.

This universe is not outside of you.

Look inside yourself;

everything that you want,

you are already that.”

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“At night, I open the window