Top 100 Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes
#2. The eye of the intellect is drunk with You, the wheeling galaxy is humble before You, the ear of ecstasy is in Your hand; nothing happens without You.
The soul is bubbling with You, the heart imbibes from You, the intellect bellows in rapture; nothing happens without You.
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#3. Have you ever seen a seed fallen to earth not rise with a new life why should you doubt the rise of a seed named human.
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#4. you only knew what bliss I found in being nothing you would not advise me how to live. When
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#5. Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world.
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#6. God continually turns you from one state of feeling to another, revealing truth by means of opposites.... So that you may have the two wings of fear and hope; for the bird with one wing is unable to fly....
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#12. Solomon lifts his morning cup to the mountains. Sit down in this pavilion, and don't listen to religious bickering. Be silent as we absorb the spring.
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#14. I hang here like Hallaj, feeling those lips
on me, the honor of being lifted up
on a crucifixion apple tree.
Now the kissing is over.
Fold your love in.
Hide it like pastry filling.
Whisper within with
a shy girl's tenderness
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#17. What becomes of the heart, when the heart's hand grasps the hand of a sweetheart?
What becomes of the dross copper, when it hears the welcoming voice of the philosopher's stone?
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#18. Love is a boundless ocean
in which
heavens are but foam.
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#19. I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and the sweetness of my moon.
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#21. Flowering. Love cannot be held long within categories, likewise the poetry celebrating love. You might say that love loves confusion and not be far wrong. Love is metamorphosis, rapid and radical, agile, full of vigor and levity. Love
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#23. Whatever came from being
is caught up in being, drunkenly
forgetting the way back
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#26. In The End
In the end, the mountains of imagination were nothing
but a house.
And this grand life of mine was nothing but an excuse.
You've been hearing my story so patiently for a lifetime
Now hear this: it was nothing but a fairy tale.
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#29. Without delay, from the middle of his (closed) fist every pebble began to pronounce the (Moslem's) profession of faith. Each said, "There is no god" and (each) said, "except Allah"; (each) threaded the pearl of "Ahmad is the Messenger of Allah.
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#30. There is no spitting on the way we're on.
Rain itself turns to spit on those who mock and casually show disrespect to saints.
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#32. I am the bird of the spiritual Garden,
not of this world of dust; for a few days,
they have a cage of my body made.
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#34. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes, it's in front!
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#44. Atom, you want to flee the sun?
Madman, give up!
You're a jar; fate's a stone-
kick against it, and you'l waste your wine.
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#45. Why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last....
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#46. He said, "Your witness is invalid; your eye is wet-skirted." I
said, "By the splendour of your justice, they are just and without
fault."
He said, "Who was your companion?" I said, "Your fantasy,
O King." He said, "Who summoned you hither?" I said, "The
scent of your cup.
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#50. See that caravan of camels
loaded with sugar?--
His eyes contain that much sweetness.
But don't look into His eyes
unless you're ready to lose all sight of your own.
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#54. In the heavens I see your eyes,
In your eyes I see the heavens.
Why look for another Moon or another Sun? -
What I see will always be enough for me.
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#55. If I set my heart on anything but you Let fire burn me from inside.
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#56. Of the book of God
Thou art a copying,
A mirror, wherein showed
The beauty of the King.
All God ever wrought
Dwelleth not apart;
All thou hast ever sought,
Find it in thy heart.
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#58. A heart filled with desire for
sweetness and tender souls
must not waste itself with unsavory matters.
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#59. If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.
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#60. Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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#62. if your eyes are marred
with petty visions
wash them with tears
your teardrops are healers
as they begin to arrive
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#63. I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine
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#64. Love is best when mixed with anguish.
In our town,
we won't call you a Lover
if you escape the pain.
Look for Love in this way,
welcome it to your soul,
and watch your spirit fly away in ecstasy.
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#65. Soul drunk, body ruined, these two sit helpless in a wrecked wagon. Neither knows how to fix it.
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#66. The way of God's Messenger
is the way of Love.
We are the children of Love.
Love is our Mother.
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#67. Don't complain about autumn. Walk with grief like a good friend. Listen to what he says. Sometimes the cold and dark of a cave give the opening we most want.
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#68. Create the bounty of madness in your heart (of His love)
Not by intelligence alone will you reach to the truth."
(For if the mind is not enlightened by revelation,
It is better to remain an ignorant one.)
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#69. Wherever you go, you are with me still, you who are my eyes and my brightness; if you will, draw me to drunkenness, if you will, transport me to annihilation.
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#70. You have read in the text where They love him
blends with He loves them.
Those joining loves
are both qualities of God. Fear is not.
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#72. What messages are momently flashing from his eyes to mine - may my eyes be gladdened and intoxicated by his message!
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#73. Understand the secret unseen ways of heart to heart contact like this:
When two lamps are being lit.
The lamps will remain separate
But their light will become intermixed
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#76. Love is that that never sleeps, nor even rests,
nor stays for long with those that do.
Love is language that cannot be said,
or heard.
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#77. Wherever a pain is, that's where the cure goes; wherever poverty is, that's where provision goes. Wherever a difficult question is, that's where the answer goes; wherever a ship is, water goes to it. Don't seek the water; increase your thirst, so water may gush forth from above and below.
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#78. When ink joins with a pen, then the blank paper
can say something. Rushes and reeds must be woven
to be useful as a mat. If they weren't interlaced, the wind would blow them away.
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#79. my worst held-back secrets: everything has to do with loving and not loving. This night will pass. Then we have work to do.
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#81. Songs are all but a branch of the yearning for union; branch and root are never comparable.
Close your lips, and open the window of the heart; by that way be conversant with the spirits.
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#84. The fearful ascetic runs on foot, along the surface.
Lovers move like lightning and wind.
No contest.
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#85. DOVES People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. WHEN
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#86. To see the moon that cannot be seen,
turn your eyes inward & look at yourself,in silence...
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#87. You are prime matter, who am I?
The looking-glass in your fingers.
I become all that you display -
The mirror to prove you exist.
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#90. Rumi says, Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting. That
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#91. It doesn't matter that you've broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
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#97. In comfort and abundance the Friend raised me. With vein and skin He tailored this ragged body. It's just a robe worn by a Sufi, the heart. The whole universe is a khaneqah1 and He is my Shaikh.
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#98. The moment you accept the troubles you have been given , the door will open
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#100. When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do I see Him?
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.
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