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The Essential Rumi QUOTES

The Essential Rumi QUOTES

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

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

2 " Soul, if you want to learn secrets,

your heart must forget about
shame
 and dignity.
You are God's lover,

yet you worry
what people
are saying. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

3 " Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open? "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

4 " Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

5 " You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

6 " You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

7 " Knowledge that is acquired
is not like this. Those who have it worry if
audiences like it or not.
It's a bait for popularity.
Disputational knowing wants customers.
It has no soul...
The only real customer is God.
Chew quietly
your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay
playfully childish. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

8 " 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! "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

9 " 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. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

10 " This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

11 " …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. "

― Coleman Barks , The Essential Rumi

12 " 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 small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

13 " These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

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

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

15 " Notice how each particle moves.
Notice how everyone has just arrived here
from a journey.
Notice how each wants a different food.
Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up,
and how all streams stream toward the ocean.

Look at the chefs preparing special plates
for everyone, according to what they need.
Look at this cup that can hold the ocean.
Look at those who see the face.
Look through Shams’ eyes
into the Water that is
entirely jewels. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

16 " You are so weak. Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know. "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

17 " Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission.
Mevlana Jalal ad-Din RUMI "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

18 " Whoever's calm and sensible is insane! "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi

19 " When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states. "

― Huston Smith , The Essential Rumi

20 " It’s 4 A.M. Nasruddin leaves the tavern and walks the town aimlessly. A policeman stops him. “Why are you out wandering the streets in the middle of the night?” “Sir,” replies Nasruddin, “if I knew the answer to that question, I would have been home hours ago! "

― Rumi , The Essential Rumi