Love Quotes of Jalal al-Din al-Rumi (7)

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

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O tongue, you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

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Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, 'The faithful are mirrors to one another.'

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Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits,

have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

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Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

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There is no worse sickness for the soul,

O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

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The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

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How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been a heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

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O heart, if you want to join us,

raise yourself

to the dome of the inner sky

Enter the fortress that no one can break.

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Why should I be weary

when every cell of my body is bursting with life?

Why should I be a donkey's slave

when I ride upon a magical horse?

Why should I be less than the Moon

when there are no scorpions at my feet?

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well

when a strong rope is in my hand?

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I am the rays of the Sun

dancing through the windows of every house.

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I am the glorious Sun,

the ocean laden with pearls.

Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

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The truth of what you see

is written all over your face!

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I come to you without me, come to me without you.

Self is the thorn in the sole of the soul.

Merge with others,

If you stay in self, you are a grain, you are a drop,

If you merge with others, you are an ocean, you are a mine.

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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu

Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East

or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not

composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,

did not descend from Adam or Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace

of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two

worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that

breath breathing human being.

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I drank that wine of which the soul is its vessel. Its ecstacy has stolen my intellect away. A light came and kindled a flame in the depth of my soul. A light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.

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In generosity and helping others be like a river.

In compassion and grace be like sun.

In concealing others' faults be like night.

In anger and fury be like dead.

In modesty and humility be like earth.

In tolerance be like a sea.

Either exist as you are or be as you look.

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Let silence take you to the core of life.

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The soil is faithful to its trust: whatever

you have sown in it, you reap the same.

But until springtime brings the touch of God,

the soil does not reveal its secrets.

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He breathes into my ear

until my soul

takes on His fragrance.

He is the soul of my soul.

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Close the language-door,

and open the love-window

The moon won't use the door,

only the window.

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Go my friend

Bestow your love

Even on your foes

If you touch their hearts

What do you think will happen.

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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

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In the midst of making form, love

made this form that melts form,

with love for the door,

soul the vestibule.

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Watch the dust grains moving

in the light near the window.

their dance is our dance.

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I have died many times, but your breath

made me alive again.

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I am the Spirit Moon

with no place.

You do not see me for I am hidden

inside the soul.

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I am the garden of all gardens

I speak as the King of all flowers

I am the spring of all waters.

My words are like a ship and the sea

is their meaning.

Come to me and I will take you

to the depths of spirit.

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My soul is screaming in ecstasy

Every fiber of my being

is in love with you

Your effulgence

has lit a fire in my heart.

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My arrow of love

has arrived at the target

I am in the house of mercy

and my heart

is a place of prayer.

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No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

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A thorn in the foot is hard to find.

What about a thorn in the heart?

If everyone saw the thorn in his heart,

when would sorrow gain the upper hand?

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Don't take a wooden sword into battle. Go, find one of steel; then march forward with joy.

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Love, the life-giving garden of this world.

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