Quotes

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Beyond
Meet
Soul
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Wound
Place
Light
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Acting
Small
Motion
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Yesterday
Change
Myself
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What you seek is seeking you.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
You
Seek
Seeking
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Grieve
Lose
Round
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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.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Minute
First
Story
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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.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Dance
Bandage
Fighting
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Irritated
Mirror
Polished
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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Satisfied
Stories
Gone
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Things
Soul
Moving
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Born
Prefer
Life
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Safety
Reputation
Notorious
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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.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Knock
Shine
Raise
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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.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Night
God
Difference
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Raise
Voice
Flowers
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My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Soul
Elsewhere
Intend
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silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Silence
Language
Translation
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Sell
Cleverness
Bewilderment
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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.
― Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Love
Poems
Sometimes