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Jalaluddin Rumi
212 QuotesQuotes by Jalaluddin Rumi
"Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?"
"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?"
"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."
"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"
"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."
"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."
"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."
"Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying."
"You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one."
"You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity.We're the language that tries to say it.You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing."
"The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground."
"You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange."
"You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin"
"Give your weakness to one who helps."
"The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."
"Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."
"Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript oƒ 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."
"I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
"An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed."
"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."