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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be empty of worrying.
    Think of who created thought!

    Why do you stay in prison
    When the door is so wide open?”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
    “Be melting snow.
    Wash yourself of yourself.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Respond to every call
    that excites your spirit.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you go through a hard period,
    When everything seems to oppose you,
    ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
    NEVER GIVE UP!
    Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: follow-your-heart, guidance, inclination, occupations, preferences, pull
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: pain
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    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
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: confusion, faith, inspirational, love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

    The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: hope
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
    ― Jelaluddin Rumi , The Essential Rumi
    tags: balance, change, growth, presence, the-middle-way
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
    How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: esoteric-wisdom, metaphysics, rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-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
    tags: inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You're water. We're the millstone.
    You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
    You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
    of our hands. You're the clarity.
    We're the language that tries to say it.
    You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: calm, insane, insanity, sane, sensible
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There are thousands of wines
    that can take over our minds.

    Don't think all ecstasies
    are the same!

    Jesus was lost in his love for God.
    His donkey was drunk with barley.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
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    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
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
    tags: lovers
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    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
    tags: love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din, مثنوی معنوی
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
    ― Rumi
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    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
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “An eye is meant to see things.
    The soul is here for its own joy.

    A head has one use: For loving a true love.
    Feet: To chase after.

    Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
    for learning what men have done and tried to do.

    Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind
    when it only wants to see why.

    A lover is always accused of something.
    But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
    in the looking comes back completely changed.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Night and Sleep
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You wander from room to room
    Hunting for the diamond necklace
    That is already around your neck!”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The cure for pain is in the pain.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: pain
    987 likes



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