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“Try something different. Surrender.”
― Rumi

“You had better run from me. My words are fire.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

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

“When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.”
― Rumi

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

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
― Rumi

“People who repress desires
often turn, suddenly,
into hypocrites.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”
― Rumi

“Look carefully around you and recognize
the luminosity of souls.
Sit beside those who draw you to that.”
― Rumi

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

“Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.”
― Rumi

“Now be silent.
Let the One who creates the words speak.
He made the door.
He made the lock.
He also made the key.”
― Rumi

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”
― Rumi

“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
― Rumi

“Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.”
― Rumi

“When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.”
― Rumi

“If you look too closely at the form, you'll miss the essence”
― Rumi

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

“I Lost Everything,
I Have Found Myself.”
― Mevlana Rumi

“Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.”
― Rumi

“Leave that which is not,
but appears to be. Seek that which is,
but is not apparent.”
― Rumi, The Mystical Poems of Rumi 1: First Selection, Poems 1-200

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

“Go find yourself first so you can also find me.”
― Rumi

“In fact, my soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you, We hide in each other.”
― Rumi

“At a distance you only see my light...
Come closer and Know that I am You”
― Rumi

“Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi

“In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.”
― Rumi

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom”
― Rumi

“WHEN YOU ARE FREED FROM THIS BODY
YOU WILL ENTER INTO A NEW WORLD
WITHOUT ANY EFFORT.”
― Rumi

“What are "I" and "You"?
Just lattices
In the niches of a lamp
Through which the One Light radiates.

"I" and "You" are the veil
Between heaven and earth;
Lift this veil and you will see
How all sects and religions are one.

Lift this veil and you will ask
When "I" and "You" do not exist
What is mosque?
What is synagogue?
What is fire temple?”
― Rumi