Water Rumi Quotes

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

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#2. You have been walking the water's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper. Love flows down.

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#3. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.

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#4. There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together

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#5. The water has a Water that is driving it;
The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.

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#6. We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Thirst drove me down to the water
where I drank the moon's reflection.

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#9. Nothing can help me but that beauty.
There was a dawn I remember
when my soul heard something from your soul.
I drank water from your spring
and felt the current take me.

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#10. If I gaze at my beloved
she may feel embarrassed
and if I do not,
she will feel neglected.
I can see the stars reflecting
in the calm water of her face
but if I look away
I lose my clarity.

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#11. Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently ... Can words describe the indescribable?

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#12. When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.

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#13. 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.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#14. If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

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#15. Love is the water of life, jump into this water.

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#16. You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

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#17. All winter you carved water jars out of ice.
How well will they hold the summer snowmelt?

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#18. Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

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#19. The Water said to the dirty one, "Come here."
The dirty one said, "I am too ashamed."
The water replied, "How will your shame be washed away without me?

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#20. The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it ... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.

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#21. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

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#22. A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!

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#23. Stars burn clear
all night till dawn.
Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

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#24. Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.

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#25. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.

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#26. You are water, whirling water,
Yet still water trapped within,
Come, submerge yourself within us,
We who are the flowing stream.

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#27. Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

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#28. I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.

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#29. Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

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#30. Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

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#31. The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

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#32. Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

Elif Shafak

#33. Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

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#34. If you show patience
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water.

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#35. I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

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#36. Don't look to anyone for your needs,
for the One who created you,
waters you.

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#37. When God
wishes to help,
he lets us weep.
Wherever water flows,
life flourishes,
wherever tears fall
divine mercy is shown.

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#38. Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
Laughter always follow tears
Blessed are those who understand
Life blossoms wherever water flows
Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown

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#39. There is a way of loving not attached to what is loved.
Observe how water is with the ground,
always moving toward the ocean,
though the ground tries to hold water's foot
and not let it go.

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#40. Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

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#41. What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

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#42. Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

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#43. Don't seek the water; get thirst.

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#44. The Prophets accept all agony and trust it
For the water has never feared the fire.

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#45. Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

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#46. There's a path from me to you
I'm constantly looking for,
so I try to keep clear and still
as water does with the moon.

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#47. I said, "Show me what to do."
He said, Die.
I said, "The water has turned into oil."
He said, Die.
I said, "I will become a butterfly
circling around your light."
He said, Die.

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#48. When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

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#49. The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.

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#50. The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.

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#51. Do not seek water, get thirst.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#52. For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

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#53. Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.

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#54. Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

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#55. There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

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#56. Water the fruit trees, and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentry and knotted up tumors.

Coleman Barks

#57. Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!

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