Rumi Quotes

Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is knownIf you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.

Jalaluddin Rumi

In one moment, we are now forever,in one moment...

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

Holly Lynn Payne

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

Holly Lynn Payne

Your transformation will be the miracle.

Holly Lynn Payne

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.

Jalaluddin Rumi

...see the blessing and beauty that you are.

Holly Lynn Payne

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

Aberjhani

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Holly Lynn Payne

If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

Jalaluddin Rumi

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

Holly Lynn Payne

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

Jalaluddin Rumi

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

Jalaluddin Rumi

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who'd just smoked a cigarette et cetra. Another list. The things we loved: strong coffee, Matisse, Rumi, summer rain, bathing together, Tom Hanks, rice pancakes, Cafe Sunrise, black-and-white photographs, the first quiet moments after you wake up in the morning.

Sachin Kundalkar

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

Holly Lynn Payne

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Aberjhani

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.

Jalaluddin Rumi

...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

Holly Lynn Payne

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

Holly Lynn Payne

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

Holly Lynn Payne

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

Holly Lynn Payne

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

Holly Lynn Payne

...purification was the point of such pain.

Holly Lynn Payne

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

Holly Lynn Payne

It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peace

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

Holly Lynn Payne

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Holly Lynn Payne

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

Jody West

I see the life with your sight,O" the love; you're my light.

Debasish Mridha

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Jalaluddin Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

Jalaluddin Rumi

When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment.

Shah Asad Rizvi

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance

Shah Asad Rizvi

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.

Shah Asad Rizvi

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.

Shah Asad Rizvi

If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

Shah Asad Rizvi

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