Essential Rumi Quotes

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Essential Rumi Quotes

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own

myth.

Be empty of worrying.

Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

Respond to every call

that excites your spirit.

When you go through a hard period,

When everything seems to oppose you,

... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,NEVER GIVE UP!

Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what youreally love. It will not

lead you astray.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about

things going badly. Let the lover be.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always

stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every smallcontracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds'

wings.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so thatyou will have two wings to fly, not one

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.


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I will be waiting here....

For your silence to break,

For your soul to shake,

For your love to wake!

Are you jealous of the oceans generosity?Why would you refuse to give

this joy to anyone?

Fish dont hold the sacred liquid in cups!

They swim the huge fluid freedom.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering.

Half-heartedness doesnt reach into majesty.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burnedby the smiling

sun.

You run back and forth listening for unusual events,

peering into the faces of travelers.

"Why are you looking at me like a madman?"

I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

What can I do, Dear Ones ?

I do not know myself.

I am neither Christian nor Jew,neither Magian nor Muslim,

I am not from east or west,

not from land or sea,

not from the shafts of nature

nor from the spheres of the firmament,

not of the earth, not of water,

not of air, not of fire.

I am not from the highest heaven,

not from this world,

not from existence, not from being.

I am not from India, not from China,

not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,

not from the realm of the two Iraqs,

not from the land of Khurasan.

I am not from the world, not from beyond,not from heaven and not from hell.


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I am not from Adam, not from Eve,

not from paradise and not from Ridwan.

My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,

no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.

I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.

One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.

He is the first, he is the last,

he is the outer, he is the inner.

Beyond He and He is I know no other.

I am drunk from the cup of love,

the two worlds have escaped me.

I have no concern but carouse and rapture.

If one day in my life I spend a moment without you

from that hour and that time I would repent my life.

If one day I am given a moment in solitude with you

I will trample the two worlds underfoot and dance forever.

O Beloved , I am so tipsy here in this world,

I have no tale to tell but tipsiness and rapture.

The Ripe Fig

Now that You live here in my chest,

anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.

And those other images,

which have enchanted people

like porcelain dolls from China,

which have made men and women weep

for centuries, even those have changed now.

What used to be pain is a lovely bench

where we can rest under the roses.

A left hand has become a right.

A dark wall, a window.

A cushion in a shoe heel,

the leader of the community!

Now silence. What we sayis poison to some


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and nourishing to others.

What we say is a ripe fig,

but not every bird that flies

eats figs.

But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke?

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than

altered states.

the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community

was to open the heart,

explore the mystery of union,

to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,

and to celebrate the glory and difficulty

in being in human incarnation.

My sweet heart,

you have aroused my passion,

your touch has filled me with desire,

I am no longer separate from you,

these are precious moments,

I beseech you,

dont let me wait,

You are sitting here with us,

but you are also out walking in a field at dawn.

You are yourself the animal we hunt

when you come with us on the hunt.

You are in your body

like a plant is solid in the ground,

yet you are wind.

You are the diver's clothes

lying empty on the beach.You are the fish.

In the ocean are many bright strands

and many dark strands like veins that are seen

when a wing is lifted up.

Your hidden self is blood in those,

those veins that are lute strings

that make ocean music,

not the sad edge of surf,

but the sound of no shore.

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