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Rumi Quotes - Page 49

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Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

Water, Tree, Thorns

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Peace, Passion, Eye

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.30, Penguin UK

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Spiritual, Tired, Way

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.166, Penguin UK

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it.

Christian, Mother, Buddhist

All the world Loves You, but You are nowhere to be found, Hidden and yet . . . completely obvious!

Love You, World Love, Found

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Perfection, Soul, Proud

"Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

Beach, Powerful, Roots

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

Block, Flower, Taken

Close the language-door, and open the love-window

Doors, Language, Window

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

Love, Paradise, Resurrection

I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.

Attitude, Heart, Temples

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Yield, Sublime, Needs

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

Today, Cliffs, Knows

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

Dying, Answers, Pay

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

Lovers, Longing

In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.

Shadow, Beloved

There comes a holy and transparent time when every touch of beauty opens the heart to tears. This is the time the Beloved of heaven is brought tenderly on earth. This is the time of the opening of the ROSE.

Heart, Rose, Heaven

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

Love, Gold, Divinity

The radiant one in me has never said a word.

Said, Radiant

In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved, And our seeking is His seeking And our words are His words... We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him. Sitting by His side, we ask: 'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

Life And Love, Shadow, Sides

I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.

Moon, Heaven, Soul

Jalal al-Din Rumi (2010). “Mystical Poems of Rumi”, p.277, University of Chicago Press

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

Struggle, Reading, Learning

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.

Hair, Soul, Skins

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Spiritual, Garden, Feet

"Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi". Book translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz. Divan 1740:1-3, 1998.

It's no good giving my heart and my Soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

Heart, Mirrors, Giving

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