Rumi Quotes - Page 53

• I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

  Rumi

  Time, Light, Ark

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• There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

  Rumi

  Light, Conformity, Grain

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.45, Penguin UK

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• The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

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  Sky, Giving, Suffering

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• What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.

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  Spring, Long, Personality

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• Shine like the whole universe is yours.

  Rumi

  I Hate You, Shining, Whole

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• You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

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  Old Buildings, Sensual, Tears

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• Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

  Rumi

  Shells, My Friends

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• This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

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  Spring, Reflection, Garden

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• What you have despised in yourself
  as a thorn opens into a rose.

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  Rose, Despised

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• When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

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  Wisdom, Regret, Confused

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• The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

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  Pain, Grief, Journey

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• Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

  Rumi

  Angel, Light, Discipline

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

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  Eye, Use, Discrimination

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• I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

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  Stars, Symphony, Tunes

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• There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

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  Giving, Wellness, Force

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• What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

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  What Matters, Soul, Matter

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• A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

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  Heart, Silence, House

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• Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

  Rumi

  Loss, Rose, Gains

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.722, Delphi Classics

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• Thirst drove me down to the water
  where I drank the moon's reflection.

  Rumi

  Reflection, Moon, Water

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

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  Inspirational, Children, Pain

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.218, Penguin UK

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• Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

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  Spiritual, Pain, Treasure

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.367, Delphi Classics

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• To Love is to be God.
  Never will a Lover's chest
  feel any sorrow.
  Never will a Lover's robe
  be touched by mortals.
  Never will a Lover's body
  be found buried in the earth.
  To Love is to be God.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Sorrow

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.

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  Way, Spirit, Streams

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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• To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

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  Appreciation, Eye, Sun

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.146, Penguin UK

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• We are all bathed in the same light.

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  Light

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