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Sun Quotes by Rumi

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Rumi writes that the sun’s light changes how it shines on different walls, showing that perspectives vary. He compares an open heart to a sun that can be seen in every tiny thing. He also says love can rise suddenly, like the sun bursting into a new day.

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Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

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He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

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There is a sun within every person.

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There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

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Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

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The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets.

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We are the Sun with all the different kinds of Light.

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A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.

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Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.

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Whoever has Heart's doors wide open, could see the Sun itself in every atom.

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Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the…

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They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun!

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I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

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You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

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“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…

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Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings… Leave and don't look away from the sun…

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You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip…

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You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun…

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I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The…

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Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof…

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Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare…

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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who…

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Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering…

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Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then…

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I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of…

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Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the…

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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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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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Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants…

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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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From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try…

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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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Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets The moon sets But they are not gone.

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Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

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I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

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Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity.…

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Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to…

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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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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.”