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Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Patience is the key to joy.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Let the beauty of what we love be what we do.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi The middle path is the way to wisdom.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi You think the shadow is the substance.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?
Jalal-Uddin Rumi That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.
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