Rumi Quotes

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• This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in…
• In Silence there is eloquence.
• Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the…
• Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you…
• On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
• We are born of love. Love is our mother.
• Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life
• Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.
• Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.
• Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
• My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
• ...one cannot lodge in if.
• Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
• Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
• If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in…
• It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.
• Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move…
• Revile those who flatter you.
• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
• When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps…

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