Rumi Quotes

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• If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a…
• A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!
• Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like…
• Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.
• You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of…
• Lamps are different, but light is the same.
• Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
• Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet…
• There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.
• Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what…
• You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.
• Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.
• When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.
• You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed…
• I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.
• He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
• When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.
• Swim out of your little pond.
• Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but…
• Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

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