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Rumi Quotes - Page 52

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Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to be born. Oh friend! There is treasure in your heart, it is heavy with child.

Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to be born. Oh friend! There is treasure in your heart, it is heavy with child. Listen. All the awakened ones, like trusted midwives are saying, 'welcome this pain. It opens the dark passage of Grace.

Mother, Children, Pain

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

Two, Two Worlds, World

The glance of Love is crystal clear.

Love Is, Crystals, Glances

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.

Love, Friendship, Marriage

Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.108, Lulu.com

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

Rocks, Wildflowers, Littles

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

Valentines Day, Sky, Making Love

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?

Sunset, Moon, Worry

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

Spring, Flower, Giving

When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

Wisdom, Regret, Confused

You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.

Ignorant, Way, Way Of Love

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.

Spiritual, Sadness, Cities

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

Religious, Stars, Men

When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!

Ocean, Let Me, Chests

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.173, Penguin UK

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

Down And, Flow, Rings

"The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 1: "The Tavern", p. 2, 1995.

The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

Covenant With God, Agreement, Judging

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

Spiritual, Mean, Knowing

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

Light, Conformity, Grain

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.45, Penguin UK

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

Prayer, Heart, House

Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.

Morning, Stars, Thinking

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

I Hate You, Shining, Whole

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

Heart, Arrogance, Holy

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.

Giving, Water, Accepting

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

Time, Light, Ark

Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick.

Kings, Looks, Sticks

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

Love, Passionate, Reckoning

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