A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
Rumi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.”
“If you want money more than anything, you will be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you will become a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.”
“Just to be held by the ocean is the best luck we could have. It is a total waking-up. (from Buoyancy)”
“When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of your will be gained more quickly.”
“My guide, my soul, your only sadness is when I am not walking with you.”
“Listen to presences inside poems. Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.”
“Just to be held by the ocean is the best luck we could have. It is a total waking-up.”
“The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.”
“Don't complain about autumn. Walk with grief like a good friend. Listen to what he says. Sometimes the cold and dark of a cave give the opening we most want.”
“Be courageous and discipline yourself. Work. Keep digging your well. Don't think about getting off from work. Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring on the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.”
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