Top 100 Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes
#1. It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hundred other tasks, but neglected to accomplish the task for which you were sent, it would be as though you had done nothing.
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#3. 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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#4. Consult with the assembly of righteous,
For the Prophet 1ft was also ordered to do that.
The minds of men are like lighted lamps,
The light of twenty lamps surely gives more light than one
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#5. WHO MAKES THESE CHANGES? Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right. It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want. DROWNING
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#7. Why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last....
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#8. Lose yourself,
lose yourself in this love.
When you lose yourself in this love, you will find everything
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#9. Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al
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#10. Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind.
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#11. 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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#12. They followed the middle way of Muhammad, which included marriage, a socially useful livelihood, and a life "in the world but not of it.
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#15. You are not a drop in a ocean,
You are entire ocean in a drop.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine
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#29. 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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#32. Therefore the tongue of mutual understanding is different indeed: to be one in heart is better than to be one in tongue. Without speech and without sign or scroll, hundreds of thousands of interpreters arise from the heart. The birds, all and each, their secrets of skill and knowledge and practice
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#33. Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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#34. If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.
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#36. A heart filled with desire for
sweetness and tender souls
must not waste itself with unsavory matters.
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#40. If I set my heart on anything but you Let fire burn me from inside.
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#43. 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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#44. I could not have known
what love is if I had never
felt this longing. Anything
done to excess becomes
boring, except this overflow
that moves toward you.
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#48. 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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#49. Whatever picture you paint
or poem you write
He is beyond that.
Whatever height you can reach,
He is higher than your 'highest'.
Get rid of your talking and your books -
it is far better
to let Him be your book.
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#52. light of Spirit God sends it trials of suffering and pain so the gold of the Spirit may manifest. Surrender,
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#53. Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
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#54. 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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#58. 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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#60. 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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#62. I manage fine with no others around;
I cannot manage without you.
My heart bears your brand,
it won't wander away from you.
Reason's eye blurs with your wine
heaven's wheel spins under your thumb Pleasure's nose follows your lead,
I cannot manage without you.
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#67. I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.
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#68. 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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#70. 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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#71. you only knew what bliss I found in being nothing you would not advise me how to live. When
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#76. I can conquer the World with a blink.
I can heal a broken Heart with a Smile.
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#77. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes, it's in front!
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#79. 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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#81. 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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#82. Make me sweet again,
and fresh
and fragrant
and grateful
for any small event.
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#83. 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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#85. From now on I will make burning my aim, For I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.
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#88. 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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#89. Love is the vital core of the soul,
and of all you see, only love is infinite
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#92. 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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#94. Whatever came from being
is caught up in being, drunkenly
forgetting the way back
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#96. 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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#99. I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and the sweetness of my moon.
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#100. Love is a boundless ocean
in which
heavens are but foam.
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