Top 25 Quotes by Rumi of 1775 - Page 54

A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryo forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness

Rumi

Morning, Moon, Giving

Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.

Rumi

Wisdom, Islamic, Men

Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.

Rumi

Want, Arms, Beloved

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

Rumi

Laughter, Joy, Sorrow

My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.

Rumi

House, Wonder, Lost

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.215, Shambhala Publications

We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are pain and what cures pain. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. Soul of the world, no life, nor world remain, no beautiful women and men longing. Only this ancient love circling the holy black stone of nothing. Where the lover is the loved, the horizon and everything within it.

Rumi

Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

Rumi

Life, Dancing, Meditation

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

Wise, Today, Changing Myself

Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

Rumi

Ocean, Love Is, Secret

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Rumi

Travel, Adventure, Optimistic

Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

Rumi

Sunset, Sleep, Rivers

Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.98, Lulu.com

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

Rumi

Giving Up, Wine, Fire

Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.

Rumi

Eye, Doe, Gone

Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world.

Rumi

Soul, World, Sufism

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