Steven R > Steven's Quotes

“They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“Like a shadow,
I am and I am not.”
― Rumi

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
― Rumi

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

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
― Rumi

“In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn towards God.”
― Imam Al Ghazali

“Does money upset the hearts of learned men ?

He answered,

"men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned''



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― Hujjat al Islam Abu Hamid al Ghazali Rahmatullahi alaih

“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”
― Imam al-Ghazali

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.”
― Imam Al-Ghazali

“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”
― Rumi

“You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end. ”
― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

“Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din, مثنوی معنوی

“The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”

“In prayer all are equal.”
― Rumi

“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
― Rumi

“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Whenever we manage to love without expectations,
calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
― Rumi

“Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?

Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?”
― Rumi