Top 25 Quotes by Rumi of 1775 - Page 45

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

Rumi

Real, Heart, Sacrifice

At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love: We are going to sky, who wants to come with us? We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels, And now we will go back there, for there is our country.

Rumi

Love, Country, Angel

Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.46, Lulu.com

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi

Love, Life, Spiritual

"The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 4: "Spring Giddiness", p. 46, 1995.

The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.

Rumi

Water, Calling, Spirit

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy

Rumi

Suffering, Mercy

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.

Rumi

Secret, Crevice

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

Rumi

Sky, Feet, Celestial

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

Rumi

Love, Heart, Fire

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Rumi

Home, Funeral, Eulogy

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Penguin UK

A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.

Rumi

Auctions, Pearls, Enough

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

Rumi

Beautiful, Heart, Earth

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.

Rumi

Soul, Universe

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Rumi

Friendship, Kindness, Giving

If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones And if we come to wake we are in His hands If we come to weeping we are His cloud full of raindrops And if we come to laughing we are His lightning in that moment If we come to anger and battle it is the reflection of His wrath And if we come to peace and pardon it is the reflection of His love Who are we in this complicated world?

Rumi

Sleep, Reflection, Clouds

Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, LOVE is the diamond. They have together since the beginning of time- Side by side, step by step.

Rumi

Love Is, Soul Beauty, Beauty And Love

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “All Through Eternity”

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

Rumi

Dancing, Soul, Shadow

If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But if your heart is already awakened, Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love

Rumi

Love, War, Heart

This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.

Rumi

Running, Spiritual, Mirrors

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.74, Penguin UK

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.

Rumi

Humility, Kissing, Night