Rumi Quotes

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Rumi

Profession : Poet

Birth : September 30, 1207

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

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If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

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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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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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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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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

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You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

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The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

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I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

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What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

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