February 2012
23 posts
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“You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already...”
– Rumi
“Seek not here the words,
Search them elsewhere.
Sing to me in the silence of...”
– Rumi
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“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’...”
– Rumi
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“O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,
Be all – worlds dissolve into your...”
– Rumi
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“As a lover’s body is lowered into ground,
a thousand skylights open”
– Rumi
“Let silence take you to the core of life.”
– Rumi
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“This is a subtle truth:
whatever you love, you are.”
– Rumi
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“You’re a song, a wished-for song.”
– Rumi
“Each moment
contains a hundred messages from God:
To every cry of “Oh God”
He...”
– Rumi
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in...”
– Rumi
“You are every image, and yet
I am homesick for you!”
– Rumi
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“Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love.
If you are too careful, Love will not...”
– Rumi
“How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about...”
– Rumi
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“How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about...”
– Rumi
“I love my friends neither with
my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case heart...”
– Rumi
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“Only the soul knows what infinite love is.”
– Rumi
“The green in every tree is you.
The beauty of every garden is you.
My wealth,...”
– Rumi
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“What is your life about, anyway?
Nothing but a struggle to be someone.
Nothing...”
– Rumi
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“If you have lost heart in the Path of Love, flee to me without delay. I am a...”
– Rumi
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“When temptation claims your reason,
know that misfortune is about to strike,...”
– Rūmī (via theconsciousmuslim)
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“What a joy, to travel the way of the heart.”
– Rumi
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“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with...”
– Rumi
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“When I see your face, I shut my eyes to others.”
– Rumi
January 2012
33 posts
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“I whispered an offer softly in the ear of your playful heart.
I closed my mouth...”
– Rumi (via shahmeer)
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“We have this way of talking, and we have another.
Apart from what we wish and...”
– Rumi
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“God is never seen immaterially; and the vision of Him in woman is the most...”
– Rumi
Anonymous asked: Hello! I love this blog. I was thinking of purchasing an anthology of Rumi's collected poems... which anthology or collection has all his poems, or which would you recommend, in terms of most accurate translations?
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“Didn’t I tell you
that they will kidnap you from the path?
They will steal...”
– Rūmī (via theconsciousmuslim)
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“Love moves on its way through the pleasure it feels.”
– Rumi
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“The tale of love must be heard from love itself. For like a mirror it is both...”
– Rumi
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“I come to you, aching for you. You say, ‘You’re drunk. Go...”
– Rumi
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“Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the...”
– Rumi
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“The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; it is like the sling, it is...”
– Rumi
“God is never seen immaterially; and the vision of Him in woman is the most...”
– Rumi
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“He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the...”
– Rumi
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“There is a way of loving not attached to what is loved.”
– Rumi
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“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
– Rumi
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“Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.”
– Rumi
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“With life as short as a half taken breath,
Don’t plant anything but Love.”
– Rumi
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“Lovers cannot sleep when they feel the privacy of the beloved around them.”
– Rumi
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“When I am with you, everything is prayer.”
– Rumi
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“At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
if you come, I’ll sit up and...”
– Rumi
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“Your earthly lover can be very charming and coquettish but never very faithful....”
– Rumi
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“Although I may try to describe Love,
when I experience it, I am speechless.”
– Rumi
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“You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are...”
– Rumi
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“Love cannot be described, it must be tasted.”
– Rumi
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“Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make...”
– Rumi
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“It is love that holds everything together,
and it is the everything also.”
– Rumi
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“There is a path from me to you that
I am constantly looking for.”
– Rumi
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“There’s nothing worse than to walk out along the street
without you. I...”
– Rumi