May 2012
20 posts
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“Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.”
-Rumi
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“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”
-Rumi
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.
~Rumi
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All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea
-Rumi
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“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.”
- Rumi
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“Who am I, in the midst of all this thought traffic?”
– Rumi
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“Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.” ― Rumi
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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky”
-Rumi
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“At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.” ― Rumi
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“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.”
-Rumi
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“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.” ― Rumi
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“Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.”
– Rumi
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“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.” ― Rumi
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“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
-Rumi
“I will whisper secrets in your ear
just nod yes and be silent.
A soul moon...”
– Rumi
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“This is how I would die into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud...”
– Rumi
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“Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to Love. Do it!”
– Rumi
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“Don’t regret what’s happened. If it’s in the past, let it go....”
– Rumi
fleursdansmescheveux:
This is how a human being can change:
there’s a worm addicted to eating grape leaves. Suddenly, he wakes up, call it grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he’s no longer a worm. He’s the entire vineyard. and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, a growing wisdom and joy that doesn’t need to devour.
—Rumi, “The Worm’s Waking”,...
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“Love has come to rule and transform.
Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.”
– Rumi
April 2012
27 posts
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“Love said
you are not
intoxicated enough
you don’t
fit the group
I...”
– Rumi
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“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You...”
– Rumi
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“Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of...”
– Rumi
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“Nowhere to go but the heart.”
– Rumi
“The Guest House
This being human is a guest house….
Every morning a new...”
– Rumi
georgiacapra asked: hey do you know what poem it is where rumi talks about eating sandwhiches with god? I have been trying to find it for years.
“I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.
Come...”
– Rumi
“Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the...”
– Rumi
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“Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the...”
– Rumi
consistencywins asked: Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about.~Rumi
“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not...”
– Rumi (via thelittlephilosopher)
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“He breathes into my ear until my soul takes on His fragrance. He is the soul of...”
– Rumi
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“Don’t look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.”
– Rumi
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“We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but...”
– Rumi
“What a relief to be empty!
Then God can live your life.”
– Rumi
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“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the...”
– Rumi
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“Where kindness is, who cares for peace or war? Where goodness acts, who hears...”
– Rumi
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“When the world pushes you to your knees,
you are in the perfect position to...”
– Rumi
Sky-Circles
sanamgoli:
The way of love is not
a subtle argument.
The door there
is devastation.
Birds make great sky circles
of their freedom.
How do they learn that?
They fall, and falling,
they’re given wings.
(By Rumi; translated by Coleman Barks)
“By Allah! I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in the mountains...”
– Rumi (via blacksensation)
l'art pour l'art: Poems by Rumi →
sanamgoli:
“Two Days of Silence” After days of feasting, fast.
After days of sleeping, stay awake
one night. After these times of bitter
storytelling, joking, and serious
considerations, we should give ourselves
two days between layers of baklava
in the quiet seclusion where soul sweetens
and…
“اندیشه مکن بکن تو خود را در خواب
کاندیشه زه روی مه حجابست حجاب
دل چون ما هست...”
– Rumi (1207 - 1273) - The work of this 13th century poet was famously translated by Coleman Barks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/persian/guide/facts.shtml (via sanamgoli)
March 2012
22 posts
“Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky
And you lift me up out of the...”
– Rumi
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“The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.”
– Rumi
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“Make peace with the universe.”
– Rumi