JRJalaluddin Rumi

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Jalaluddin Rumi

Life dates: 1207 AD — 1273 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1240 AD

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

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02c. 1240 AD

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

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03c. 1240 AD

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

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04c. 1240 AD

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

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05c. 1240 AD

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?

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06c. 1240 AD

Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

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07c. 1240 AD

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.

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08c. 1240 AD

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

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09c. 1240 AD

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

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10c. 1240 AD

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

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11c. 1240 AD

An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed.

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12c. 1240 AD

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

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13c. 1240 AD

Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that.

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14c. 1240 AD

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

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15c. 1240 AD

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

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16c. 1240 AD

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

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17c. 1240 AD

Give your weakness to one who helps.

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18c. 1240 AD

You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin

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19c. 1240 AD

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

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20c. 1240 AD

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

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21c. 1240 AD

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.

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22c. 1240 AD

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

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23c. 1240 AD

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

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24c. 1240 AD

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

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