Rumi Quotes - Page 35

• Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

  Rumi

  Fire, People, Spiritual Growth

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• You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

  Rumi

  Dance, Lost Love, Sufi

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

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Thank You

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Guest House”

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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.

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  God, Spiritual, Water

  "Essential Sufism". Book by James Fadiman and Robert Frager, 1997.

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• God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

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  Spiritual, May, Observant

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• O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

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  Communication, Heart, Eye

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• How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

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  Wisdom, Spring, Flower

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• Woman is the light of God.

  Rumi

  Light

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• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

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  Reality, People, Lust

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You.
  Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You.
  No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ...
  Anything I am entirely is You!

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  Wise, Matter, Poor

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• One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of.

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  Writing, Angel, Eyelashes

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• Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

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  Wine, Eye, Hair

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• Darkness is your candle.
  Your boundaries are your quest.

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  Darkness, Quests, Boundaries

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.

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  Heart, Eye, Miracle

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• Eventhough you are not equipped,
  keep searching:
  equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.
  Whoever you see engaged in search,
  become her friend and cast your head in front of her,
  for choosing to be a neighbour of seekers,
  you become one yourself;
  protected by conquerors,
  you will yourself learn to conquer.
  If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon,
  don't smile contemptuously upon its quest.
  And of all your skills, and wealth and handicraft,
  Weren't they first merely a thought and a quest?

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Skills

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• If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

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  Heart, World, Harps

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• When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

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  Plato, Firsts, Blind

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• There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.

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  Morning, Light, Waiting

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• Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

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  Wisdom, Rain, Limitless

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• Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith.

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  Country, Real, Hadith

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• The heart is your student, for love is the only way we learn.

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  Heart, Love Is, Way

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• Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence.
  Stay there until you see you're looking at the light
  with infinite eyes.

  Rumi

  Eye, Light, Silence

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• I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

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  Ocean, East, West

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• Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

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  Friendship, Practice, Support You

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.

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  Heart, Errors, Mirrors

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