Rumi Quotes

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• To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
• In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why…
• The day is conscious of itself.
• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
• Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.
• The hurt you embrace becomes joy.
• The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
• That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
• There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell.…
• You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but…
• Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
• Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!
• If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
• Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.
• Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.
• Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
• We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
• God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually…
• The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful.
• Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

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