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Inspirational Quotes by Rumi

411 Inspirational quotes by Rumi

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Rumi paints a picture of a bright morning waiting inside each of us, ready to burst into light. He invites us to swim joyfully in gratitude and to dance even when we feel broken. He also points out that outer power matters little compared to the unsayable inner life.

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Smiles come best from those who weep.

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Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

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Such a strong thing LOVE, changes everything.

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Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

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Every step I take is a blessing.

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Those with open hearts always have open hands.

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No more words. Hear only the voice within.

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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

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

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You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

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If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

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

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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

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How did you get here? Close your eyes . . . and surrender!

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The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

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LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

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Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the…

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There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

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Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

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Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

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Go my friend bestow your love even on your enemies if you touch their hearts what do you think will happen.

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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers dont finally…

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Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That.

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You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent,…

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To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of…

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“From "Blasphemy and the Core" Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's…

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Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid…

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Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and…

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Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful…

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Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As…

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Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

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If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

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Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

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Don't seek the water; get thirst.

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No prayer is complete without presence.

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And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.

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We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

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If you # love love, look for yourself.

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Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

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Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

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The love religion is all that is written here.

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

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you…

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

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

If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But…

“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”