Rumi Quotes

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• Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.
• This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
• Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
• Because of your love I have broken with my past
• Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?
• Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the…
• Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.
• When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty…
• Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy…
• All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of Allah. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their manifesting, while others…
• Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.
• Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their…
• Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one…
• Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If…
• For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.
• Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find…
• If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
• Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere…
• This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that…
• What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

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