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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.


Rumi

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RUMI Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different ...
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RUMI Look for the answer inside your question.
RUMI Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.
RUMI Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from beyond.
RUMI What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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RUMI Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
RUMI The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. -Rumi.
RUMI Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.
RUMI When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

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فهت...
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RUMI Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
W...
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RUMI ON THE DAY I DIE

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and we try to be that lively,
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RUMI If you want money more than anything,
you will be bought and sold.

If you have a gre...
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a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation. RUMI On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of be...
RUMI But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms RUMI Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.
RUMI Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.
RUMI Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
RUMI I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
RUMI You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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RUMI Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
RUMI Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.
RUMI Brother, stand the pain.
Escape the poison of your impulses.
The sky will bow to your beau...
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RUMI Heartsick, heartbroken—
To know love is to know pain.
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RUMI Travel brings power and love back into your life.
RUMI You were born with potential.
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RUMI The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
RUMI If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
RUMI Let silence take you to the core of life.
RUMI Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
RUMI Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
RUMI Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too.
RUMI I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
RUMI The cure for pain is in the pain.
RUMI Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
RUMI As for your vision,
& what is or isn't written,
Stay faithful until it's fateful.
SUHAIB RUMI Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time...
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SUHAIB RUMI Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.
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JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Say I Am You

I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.

To the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Travel brings power and love back into your life.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Prais...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mou...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Love calls - everywhere and always.
We're sky bound.
Are you coming?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this wor...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorn...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror refle...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI What you seek is seeking you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way o...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have co...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind t...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI در غم ما روزها بی گاه شد
روزها با سوزها همراه شد
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Woman is the light of God.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Soul, if you want to learn secrets,

your heart must forget about
shame
 and dignity....
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The cure for pain is in the pain.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to l...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?

Look at yo...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI