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Rumi Quotes about Grief

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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Dream, Real, Grief

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.154, Penguin UK

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.

Grief, Taken, Sadness

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Pain, Grief, Heart

Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.

Running, Pain, Grief

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

Memories, Grief, Writing

Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God.

Love, Grief, Angel

I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?

Sweet, Drinking, Grief

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Broken Heart, Grief, Sky

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.

Beautiful, Grief, Taken

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

Grief, Mirrors, Lost

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

Pain, Grief, Journey

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.

Grief, White, Hot

Joy lives concealed in grief.

Grief, Joy, Concealed

The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.

Grief, Medicine, Essence

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.227, Penguin UK

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

Hurt, Grief, Finding Love

For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

Pain, Betrayal, Grief

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

Pain, Grief, Suffering

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

Spiritual, Grief, Blue

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