“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
―Rumi |
“Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.”
―Rumi |
“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”
―Rumi |
“Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.”
―Rumi
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“The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.”
―Rumi
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“Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.”
―Rumi
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“Free yourself from your own thoughts.”
―Rumi
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“If you look too closely at the form, you’ll miss the essence.”
―Rumi
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“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
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“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”
―Rumi |
“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
―Rumi |
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
―Rumi
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“If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.”
― Rumi |
“It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
―Rumi
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“There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”
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“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”
―Rumi
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“Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.”
―Rumi
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“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
―Rumi
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“Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you… This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.”
―Rumi
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“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
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“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
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“Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
―Rumi |
“The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.”
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“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
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“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.”
―Rumi
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“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
―Rumi
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“The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”
―Rumi
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“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
―Rumi
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“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
―Rumi
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