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• In your light I learn how to love.

  Rumi

  Dance, Lost Love, Light

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.166, Penguin UK

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• The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Voice, Tuning, Radio

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Pain

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.111, Lulu.com

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• It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

  Idries Shah

  Men, Important, Messages

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.57, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.

  Rumi

  Inspirational Love, Fire Of Love, Light

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Light Up The Fire”

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• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Three, Lists

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Reflection

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• Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

  Rumi

  Happiness, Death, Spiritual

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• Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

  Rumi

  Snow, Melting, Melting Snow

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

  Rumi

  Mouths, Way, Silent

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• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, Truth, People

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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• The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Light

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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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• Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Rain, Clouds

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.229, Shambhala Publications

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• Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

  Rumi

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

  Idries Shah

  Practice, Way, Intellect

  Idries Shah (1990). “Sufi Thought and Action”, p.4, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

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• My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

  Rumi

  Friendship, Way, Action

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

  Rumi

  Positive, Islamic, I Hate You

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  "The true spiritual leader of Iran is Rumi" by Melody Moezzi, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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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.

  Rumi

  Love, Valentines Day, Letting Go

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “This Is Love”

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Life Changing

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

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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