Rumi Quotes In English

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
they're in each other all along.
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Silence is the language of God
all else is poor translation
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
when you're not here, i can't go to sleep.
praise God for those two insomnias!
and the difference between them
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad,
that degrade you back towards disease and death.
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

Knock, and He'll open the door
vanish, and He'll make you shine like the sun
fall, And he'll raise you to the heavens
become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything."
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When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

In your light I learn how to love.
in your beauty, how to make poems.
you dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

Don’t grieve. anything you lose, comes round in another form."
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

What you seek, is seeking you
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

My soul is from elsewhere, i'm sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

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
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home."
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. first to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

The wound is the place where the Light enters you
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure
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I want to sing like the birds sing,
not worrying about who hears or what they think
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

be like the sun for grace and mercy
be like the night to cover others' faults
be like running water for generosity
be like death for rage and anger
be like the Earth for modesty
appear as you are
be as you appear
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it.
those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

oh sky, without me, do not change,
oh moon, without me, do not shine;
oh earth, without me, do not grow,
oh time, without me, do not go.
oh, you cannot go, without me."
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

you were born with wings,
why prefer to crawl through life?"
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learn the alchemy true human beings know.
the moment you accept what troubles
you've been given the door with open."
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

they say there is a doorway from heart to heart,
but what is the use of a door when there are no walls
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

give your weakness to one who helps
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not only the thirsty seek the water,
the water as well seeks the thirsty."
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

no more words.
in the name of this place we drink in with our breathing,
stay quiet like a flower.
so the nightbirds will start singing."
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -

be like melting snow
wash yourself of yourself
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