Rumi Quotes

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• Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!
• If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.
• Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.
• To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips.…
• Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.
• What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.
• Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.
• A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.
• Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.
• All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?…
• Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
• Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.
• Patience is the key to joy.
• No more words. Hear only the voice within.
• There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.
• The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a…
• God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.
• Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.
• To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
• Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

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