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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Like a sculptor, if necessary,
    carve a friend out of stone.
    Realize that your inner sight is blind
    and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
    ― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.”
    ― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی
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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
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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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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  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation
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  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: dance, inspirational
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  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Knock, And He'll open the door
    Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
    Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
    Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
    ― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi
    tags: islam, religion, spirituality
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  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: lovers
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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
    4363 likes

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  • #16
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-singing
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    ― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
    tags: wisdom
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  • #18
    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
    “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: be-yourself, love, self-actualization
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  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: reason-love
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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
    “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    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
    tags: inspirational
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  • #25
    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
    “Take someone who doesn't keep score,
    who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
    who has not the slightest interest even
    in his own personality: he's free.”
    ― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
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  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: silence
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  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
    ― Rumi
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  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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
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    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
    281 likes



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