Rumi Quotes

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• Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!
• Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God;…
• Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with…
• A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.
• All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
• I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
• We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone…
• For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
• Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little…
• If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
• The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds…
• Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making…
• The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.
• Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.
• Learn to speak by listening.
• Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you...you…
• I am so close, I may look distant.
• Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
• Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.
• From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.

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