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Joy Quotes by Rumi

47 Joy quotes by Rumi

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Rumi says that seeing your own beautiful face can awaken joy. He teaches that sorrow can become a hill of joy and that love’s garden bears many fruits beyond happiness or grief. He also invites us to make peace with the universe and feel the joy of the unknown.

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It is Love that gives joy to happiness.

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LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy.

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The soul is here for its own joy.

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Joy lives concealed in grief.

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What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart

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Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

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All we really want is love's confusing joy.

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This dance is the joy of existence.

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Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

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If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

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My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.

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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

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Get yourself out of the way, and let Joy have more space.

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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

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The unseen presence keeps saying to us, ‘You are Joy!’

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That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.

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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does…

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The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition:…

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Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new…

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My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

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The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here…

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Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these…

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The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the…

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I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger…

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Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be…

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I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility. where…

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If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world you are not living…

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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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If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn’t slumber so…

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If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to…

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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.…

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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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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel…

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The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

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Patience is the key to joy.

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Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

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I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

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Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

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Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.

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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river of joy within you. "Rumi”

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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.”