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Light Quotes by Rumi

103 Light quotes by Rumi

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A morning inside you waits to burst into light, according to the poet. The lines suggest that all faiths share one song, that conquering selfishness turns darkness into light, and that patience in the dark promises an arriving dawn. Each moment becomes bright when love’s light shines through.

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Woman is the light of God.

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

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light.

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In your light I learn how to love.

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Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.

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Lamps are different, but light is the same.

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Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining.

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This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.

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I have found the heart and will never leave This house of light.

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How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?

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The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.

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Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

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Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.

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“At a distance you only see my light... Come closer and Know that I am You”

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Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light

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That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.

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“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no…

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Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

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Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.

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Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

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There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light…

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Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into…

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There is a window between heart and heart: They are never separate like two bodies. Two lamps may not be united in…

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I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep…

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God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you…

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Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty…

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If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence…

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All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on…

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I’ve been looking for a long, long time, for this thing called love, I’ve ridden comets across the sky, and I’ve looked…

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I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and…

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I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within.…

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When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the…

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“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no…

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I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am…

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In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a…

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THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is…

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“Infinitesimal Dust What is the light in the center of the darkness inside your soul? A royal radiance or a fantasy like…

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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that…

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“Our death is our wedding with eternity What is the secret? "God is One." The sunlight splits when entering the windows of…

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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.”