Quotes by Dzsalál ad-Dín Rúmí

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Don't look for love, but explore and find all the obstacles you have put up against it within yourself.

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The world is like a well, a thousand suns sleep in every drop.

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A true saint walks among the people, eats and sleeps with them, and gives and buys in the market, and marries and participates in conversation - and never forgets God for a single moment.

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There is a field far beyond the concept of the Bad and the Good. See you there.

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Beauty and action should be one and the same.

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What you are looking for is also looking for you.

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Lovers do not meet. They are always there for each other.

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You are not a drop in the ocean. You have the whole ocean in one drop.

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There is food that we don't take in through our mouths... it forms a cup of body and soul. When you meet someone, something falls into your cup.

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I used to burn with a thousand and one wishes, but in my one desire to know you, everything else was obscured.

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You were born with opportunity. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideas and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. They're not meant for you to climb, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly!

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I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and became an animal, I died as an animal and I am human. Why should I be afraid? When did I become less than death?

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The past and the future hide God from us with a veil; so burn them both with blazing fire!