Rumi Quotes - Page 32

• For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

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  Sleep, Air, Dust

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

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  Mirrors, Inner Peace, Perception

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• Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.

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  Brave, Today, Fool

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• A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.

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  Love, Attitude, Heart

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• 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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  Inspirational, Positive, Fall

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• Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

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  Love, Life, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

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  Love, Lying, Heart

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• It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -
  Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

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  Love, Heart, Awareness

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• I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.

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  Heart, World, Weeping

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• Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.

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  Angel, Feet, Forever

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• Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home.
  While you look for trinkets
  The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

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  Flower, Home, Garden

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• No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

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  Flower, Breathing, Names

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• You’re a song, a wished-for song.

  Rumi

  Song

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• The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?

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  Dirty, Water, Shame

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• If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
  I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
  Only your presence revives my withered heart.
  You are the candle that lights the whole world
  and I am an empty vessel for your light.

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  Flower, Heart, Empty Vessels

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• I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

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  Blessing, Feet, Looks

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• It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

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  Home, Going Away, Moving Away

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 20: "In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories", p. 206, 1995.

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• I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.

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  Lying, Secret, World

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• Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

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  Character, Envy, Defects

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• Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

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  Sea, Rivers, Silence

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• Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

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  Passion, Wine, Men

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• This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.

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  Inspirational, Enough, Havens

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• Beauty surrounds us.

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  Surround

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• Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

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• To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

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  Change, Spiritual, Dragons

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