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“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
― Rumi

“Dance until you shatter yourself.”
― Rumi

“The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.”
― Rumi

“Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.”
― Rumi

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
― Rumi

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
― Rumi

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
― Rumi

“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”
― Rumi

“When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.”
― Rumi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

“Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of your heart.
Let go of thinking.”
― Rumi

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi

“Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
― Rumi

“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
― Rumi

“The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion”
― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.”
― Rumi

“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”
― Rumi

“You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don't be without Love,
so you won't feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.”
― Rumi

“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”
― Rumi

“Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Jelalludin Rumi

“Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky.
Every part of me goes in different directions.
Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi