Rumi Quotes About Wisdom
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He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
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This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain.
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Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you.
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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
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You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside
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When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.
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By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once.
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When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
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This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.
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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake Laughter always follow tears Blessed are those who understand Life blossoms wherever water flows Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown
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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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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.
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Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.
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Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.
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For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.
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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
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I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
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Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
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I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.
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Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
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A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
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Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.
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Close both eyes to see with the other eye.
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What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
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I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No one is safe! Watch out.
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