Rumi Quotes - Page 48

• If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.

  Rumi

  Dream, Freedom, Sleep

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• The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, House, Soul

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.144, Shambhala Publications

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• The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.

  Rumi

  Running, Jesus, Past

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• Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Faith, Fall

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• Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.

  Rumi

  Trying, Way, Whole

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• Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic

  Rumi

  Fun, Narcissistic, Wonderful

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• When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

  Rumi

  World, Invisible, Perceive

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• Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home.

  Rumi

  Horse, Home, Way

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• Submit to love without thinking

  Rumi

  Thinking, Submit

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• Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

  Rumi

  Courage, Challenges, Foundation

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• Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.

  Rumi

  Dark, Moon, Night

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• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

  Rumi

  Courage, Discipline, Gold

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

  Rumi

  Grief, Mirrors, Lost

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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• From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

  Rumi

  Running, Hurt, Fire

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Shadow And Light Source Both”

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• There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

  Rumi

  Wise, Cities, People

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• I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Feet

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• There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Reality

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• My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown

  Rumi

  Soul, Speak, Guides

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• Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

  Rumi

  Trying, Ears, Speak

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• Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

  Rumi

  Moving, Wind, Lightning

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• All the world Loves You,
  but You are nowhere to be found,
  Hidden and yet . . . completely obvious!

  Rumi

  Love You, World Love, Found

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• O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Deep Love, Radiance

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “O Love”

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• Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

  Rumi

  Water, Tree, Thorns

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• The Heart that is not in love will fail the test.

  Rumi

  Heart, Tests, Failing

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• Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren’t you?

  Rumi

  Doors, Hands, Long

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.161, Shambhala Publications

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