Rumi Quotes

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Rumi

Profession : Poet

Birth : September 30, 1207

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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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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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

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Grief can be the garden of compassion. 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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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

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Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

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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.

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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

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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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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

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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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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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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

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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.

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