Rumi Quotes

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• Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and…
• Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
• Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
• Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
• The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed…
• My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.
• Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its…
• Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
• How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking…
• You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.
• A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the…
• There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.
• We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.
• Jesus was lost in his love for God.
• Fasting is the first principle of medicine.
• You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.
• Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.
• Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.
• Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.
• You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes…

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