Rumi, also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Persian language and is known for his profound spiritual and philosophical verses. Rumi’s works have transcended time and cultural boundaries, making him a beloved figure around the world.
Rumi was born in 1207 in Balkh (in present-day Afghanistan) and later settled in Konya, Turkey. He was a follower of the Sufi tradition, a mystical form of Islam that emphasizes the direct experience of God’s love and the inner journey toward spiritual enlightenment. Rumi’s poetry often explores themes of love, devotion, unity, and the search for a deeper connection with the divine.
One of Rumi’s most famous works is the “Mathnawi,” a collection of poetic stories and teachings that delves into various aspects of human existence and spirituality. His poetry is characterized by its beautiful metaphors, allegorical tales, and deep insights into the nature of the soul and the universe. Rumi’s teachings emphasize the importance of love, compassion, and self-awareness as pathways to spiritual growth.
Rumi’s poetry has been translated into numerous languages and has inspired countless individuals, both within and outside of the Islamic world. His messages of universal love and unity continue to resonate with people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs, making his work a timeless source of wisdom and inspiration.
Rumi Quotes
1. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
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2. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
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3. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
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4. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
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5. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”
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6. “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
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7. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
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8. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
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9. “Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.”
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10. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
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11. “Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
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12. “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
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13. “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.”
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14. “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
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15. “If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”
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16. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”
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17. “I am so close, I may look distant.
So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.
So out in the open, I appear hidden.
So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.”
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18. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
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19. “Don’t wait any longer.
Dive in the ocean,
Leave and let the sea be you.”
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20. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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21. “Love so needs to love
that it will endure almost anything, even abuse,
just to flicker for a moment. But the sky’s mouth is kind,
its song will never hurt you, for I
sing those words.”
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22. “May these vows and this marriage be blessed.”
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23. “There’s a field somewhere
beyond all doubt and wrongdoing.
I’ll meet you there.”
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24. “The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
What you seek is seeking you.”
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25. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
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26. “Be certain that in the religion of Love, there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.”
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27. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
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28. “make your last journey
from this strange world
soar for the heights
where there is no more
separation of you and your home
God has created
your wings not to be dormant
as long as you are alive
you must try more and more
to use your wings to show you’re alive”
— Rumi
29. “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
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30. “Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
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31. “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.”
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32. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
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33. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
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34. “I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There’s no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.”
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35. “A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.”
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36. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!
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37. “What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?”
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38. “It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.”
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39. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
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40. “Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.”
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41. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”
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42. “If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.”
— Rumi
43. “Open your hands if you want to be held.”
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44. “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”
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45. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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46. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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47. “Let silence take you to the core of life.”
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48. “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.”
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49. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
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50. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
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51. “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.”
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52. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
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53. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
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54. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
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55. “When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.”
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56. “If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.”
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57. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
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58. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
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59. “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”
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60. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.”
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61. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
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62. “This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.”
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63. “The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.”
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64. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”
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65. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
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66. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
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67. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
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68. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
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69. “The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.”
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70. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
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71. “When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.”
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72. “Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.”
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73. “Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.”
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74. “Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.”
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75. “If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.”
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76. “When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.”
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77. “Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.”
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78. “Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite love.”
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79. “Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?”
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80. “Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.”
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81. “The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
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82. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.”
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83. “The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”
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84. “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
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85. “Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”
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86. “Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
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87. “What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”
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88. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
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89. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
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90. “The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”
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91. “Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”
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92. “Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”
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93. “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.”
— Rumi
94. “Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
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95. “Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest?”
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96. “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”
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97. “Be kind to yourself, dear – to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.”
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98. “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”
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99. “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.”
— Rumi
100. “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
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101. “The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.”
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102. “It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
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103. “Thankfulness brings you to the place where the beloved lives.”
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104. “That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.”
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105. “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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106. “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”
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107. “Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?”
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108. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
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109. “You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”
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110. “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”
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111. “The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”
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112. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”
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113. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
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114. “We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.”
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115. “Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.”
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116. “Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.”
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117. “It’s your road and yours alone others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
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118. “Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”
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119. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
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120. “There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion.”
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121. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near the truth.”
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122. “You have within you more love than you could ever understand.”
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123. “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”
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124. “Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunder.”
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125. “Love is a river. Drink from it.”
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126. “That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again.”
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127. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
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128. “Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.”
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129. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
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130. “When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
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131. “All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
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132. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.”
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133. “Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you… This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.”
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134. “Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”
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135. “Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.”
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136. “You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.”
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137. “You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the mighty ocean in the drop.”
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138. “We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.”
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139. “If you look too closely at the form, you’ll miss the essence.”
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140. “I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”
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141. “People want you to be happy, don’t keep serving them your pain.”
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142. “I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.”
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143. “With life as short as a half taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.”
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144. “There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.”
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145. “Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.”
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146. “You are the seeker, the goal, and seeking itself. Not only a part of them.”
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147. “Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
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148. “Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.”
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149. “Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.”
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150. “Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself to yourself.”
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151. “We often need to be refreshed.”
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152. “The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.”
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153. “Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.”
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154. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?.”
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155. “Free yourself from your own thoughts.”
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156. “Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript or a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”
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157. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
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158. “Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”
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159. “Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.”
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160. “We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
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161. “They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
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162. “Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
and your face will come to shine like a sun,
and everyone who sees it will
be made glad and peaceful.”
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163. “You cannot hide love, love will get on its way to the heart of someone you love far or near, it goes home to where it belongs to the heart of lovers.”
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164. “Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.”
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165. “That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, he said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
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166. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
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167. “Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.”
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168. “One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.”
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169. “All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”
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170. “To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.”
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171. “I want to be where your barefoot walks because maybe before you step, you’ll look at the ground. I want that blessing.”
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172. “Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”
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173. “Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.”
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174. “In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.”
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175. “Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.”
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176. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
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177. “Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.”
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178. “I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”
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179. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
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180. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
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181. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”
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182. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
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183. “The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.”
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184. “If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.”
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185. “Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.”
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186. “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
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187. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
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188. “Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.”
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189. “The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.”
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190. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
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191. “Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something will find it.”
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192. “I should be suspicious of what I want.”
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193. “The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.”
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194. “Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.”
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195. “I have neither a soul nor a body, for I come from the very Soul of all souls.”
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196. “Since Love has made ruins of my heart
The sun must come and illumine them.
Such generosity has broken me with shame.”
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197. “The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”
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198. “Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?”
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199. “The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”
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200. “Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
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201. “Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night.”
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202. “I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.”
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203. “Your magnificence has made me wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.”
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204. “The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.”
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205. “Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”
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206. “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
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207. “If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.”
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208. “We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews, or Christians but until our hearts become the mold for every heart we will see only our differences.”
— Rumi
209. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
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210. “When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.”
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211. “Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening so your life will stay fresh.”
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212. “There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”
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213. “Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.”
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214. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
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215. “Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”
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216. “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
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217. “Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
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218. “Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.”
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219. “Grief can be the garden of compassion.”
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220. “Don’t dismiss the heart, even if it’s filled with sorrow. God’s treasures are buried in broken hearts.”
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221. “Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.”
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222. “Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.”
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223. “If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”
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224. “But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”
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225. “Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.”
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226. “The source of now is here.”
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227. “Dance until you shatter yourself.”
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228. “Be an empty page, untouched by words.”
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229. “Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”
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230. “To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”
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231. “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
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232. “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
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233. “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.”
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234. “Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.”
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235. “Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.”
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236. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
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237. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
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238. “Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”
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239. “When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.”
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240. “You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. It’s not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”
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241. “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.”
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242. “Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
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243. “Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”
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244. “The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.”
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245. “Through Love, all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”
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246. “I said to the night, / “If you are in love with the moon, / it is because you never stay for long.” / The night turned to me and said, / “It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, / how can I know that love is endless?”
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247. “You hurt and have sharp desire, / yet your presence is a healing calm.”
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248. “Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
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249. “If I could repeat it, / people passing by would be enlightened and go free.”
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250. “Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? / Why would you refuse to give / this love to anyone? / Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! / They swim in the huge, fluid freedom.”
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251. “Dear soul, don’t set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself…!”
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252. A white flower grows in the quietness. / Let your tongue become that flower.”
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253. “Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”
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254. “What are mere pearls when you’ll become the ocean, / And that bright sun with its revolving motion!”
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255. “Fruits ripen with a little warmth, not fire, / A furnace’s heat fruit does not require….”
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256. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.”
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257. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
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258. “When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
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259. “Let silence be the art you practice.”
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260. “Silence gives answers.”
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261. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”
— Rumi
262. “Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.”
— Rumi
263. “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”
— Rumi
264. “I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul.”
— Rumi
265. “In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.”
— Rumi
266. “Be still! Be quiet! Find acquaintance with silence. Go inside, delve into your heart. Take a day off from the clamor.”
— Rumi
267. “If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.”
— Rumi
268. “The world’s existence is not in the world.”
— Rumi
269. “He who has led you so far will guide you further.”
— Rumi
270. “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
— Rumi
271. I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”
— Rumi
272. “You are granite. I am an empty wine glass. You know what happens when we touch.”
— Rumi
273. “Either be as you appear or appear as you are.”
— Rumi
274. “You are the honored guest. Do not weep like a beggar for pieces of the world.”
— Rumi
275. “We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!”
— Rumi
276. “From understanding comes LOVE.”
— Rumi
277. “Love risks everything and asks for nothing.”
— Rumi
278. “I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself.”
— Rumi
279. “There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.”
— Rumi
280. “If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.”
— Rumi
281. “If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light.”
— Rumi
282. “Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace.”
— Rumi
283. “All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.”
— Rumi
284. “If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.”
— Rumi
285. “I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.”
— Rumi
286. “Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.”
— Rumi
287. “Your spirit is mingled with mine what touches you, touches me.”
— Rumi
288. “Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.”
— Rumi
289. “I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.”
— Rumi
290. “She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.”
— Rumi
291. “The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.”
— Rumi
292. “The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search.”
— Rumi
293. “I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.”
— Rumi
294. “Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.”
— Rumi
295. “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
— Rumi
296. “Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.”
— Rumi
297. “God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.”
— Rumi
298. “In this life, many demolitions are actually renovations.”
— Rumi
299. “Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.”
— Rumi
300. “Trust means you’re ready to risk what you currently have.”
— Rumi
301. “Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.”
— Rumi
302. “Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.”
— Rumi
303. “Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.”
— Rumi
304. “Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.”
— Rumi
305. “Be with those who help your being. Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.”
— Rumi
