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  • #1
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    Rumi

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    Rumi
    tags: joy

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
    Rumi

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    Rumi Jalalud-Din

  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
    Rumi

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
    Rumi

  • #17
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
    Rumi

  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
    Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi

  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I have lived on the lip
    of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
    knocking on a door. It opens.
    I've been knocking from the inside.”
    Rumi

  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Respond to every call
    that excites your spirit.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
    Rumi

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “But listen to me. For one moment
    quit being sad. Hear blessings
    dropping their blossoms
    around you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
    Rumi

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
    Rumi

  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
    Rumi

  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with potential.
    You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
    You were born with wings.
    You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
    You have wings.
    Learn to use them and fly.”
    Rumi

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
    Rumi

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Do you know what you are?
    You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
    You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
    This universe is not outside of you.
    Look inside yourself;
    everything that you want,
    you are already that.”
    Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi



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