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  • #1
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    Rumi

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
    Praise God for those two insomnias!
    And the difference between them.”
    Rumi

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    Rumi
    tags: joy

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
    Rumi

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
    Rumi

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    Rumi

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    Rumi

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to see you.

    Know your voice.

    Recognize you when you
    first come 'round the corner.

    Sense your scent when I come
    into a room you've just left.

    Know the lift of your heel,
    the glide of your foot.

    Become familiar with the way
    you purse your lips
    then let them part,
    just the slightest bit,
    when I lean in to your space
    and kiss you.

    I want to know the joy
    of how you whisper
    "more”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
    There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
    You feel it, don't you?”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
    Rumi

  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
    Rumi

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sit, be still, and listen,
    because you're drunk
    and we're at
    the edge of the roof.”
    Rumi

  • #16
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
    Rumi

  • #17
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
    Jelaluddin Rumi

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”
    Rumi

  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You try to be faithful
    And sometimes you're cruel.
    You are mine. Then, you leave.
    Without you, I can't cope.

    And when you take the lead,
    I become your footstep.
    Your absence leaves a void.
    Without you, I can't cope.

    You have disturbed my sleep,
    You have wrecked my image.
    You have set me apart.
    Without you, I can't cope.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
    Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”
    Rumi

  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    Jalalu'l-din Rumi

  • #22
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Beauty surrounds us.”
    Rumi

  • #23
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You wander from room to room
    Hunting for the diamond necklace
    That is already around your neck!”
    Rumi

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
    Don't go back to sleep!
    You must ask for what you really want.
    Don't go back to sleep!
    People are going back and forth
    across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
    The door is round and open
    Don't go back to sleep!”
    Rumi

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “On a day
    when the wind is perfect,
    the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
    Today is such a
    day.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
    Rumi

  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
    How do they learn it?
    They fall and falling,
    they're given wings.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When someone is counting out
    gold for you, don't look at your hands,
    or the gold. Look at the giver.”
    Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, The Masnavi, Book Two



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