posted May 08, 2013 06:47 AM            

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
//A Very "Chiron" thing to say

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”

“Be like melting snow -- wash yourself of yourself.”

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“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.”

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky.”

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

“Silence is the language of God,
all else is poor translation.”

“The Candle of the Heart is Kindled by the Love of God"

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

"You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!”
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Found these, posted on FB and here. It would be great to have a best quote collection of all Sufi Masters.

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posted May 08, 2013 08:28 AM            

A lifetime without Love is of no account. Love is the Water of Life. Drink it down with heart and soul!

Love exalts our earthly bodies to heaven, and makes the very hills to dance with joy!

The lover's ailment is different from all ailments; Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.

Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens with your love.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

posted May 08, 2013 10:05 AM            

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posted May 08, 2013 06:30 PM            

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too.
I have come all this way eager for you,
without shoes or shawl.
I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries, to love you, to nourish you.
Oh sweet bitterness, I will soothe you and heal you.
I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

posted May 10, 2013 09:13 AM            

This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
I you want to improve your mind that way

Jalaluddin (Rumi)

posted May 10, 2013 06:25 PM            

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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
They are lovely quotes, IQ and Juni!

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Problem w/quotes AA, is they are a bit of mental crutch, they allow things to be said in an inorganic manner that seem profound, but are not deeply investigated.

posted May 10, 2013 06:44 PM            

quote:

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Originally posted by Padre35:
Problem w/quotes AA, is they are a bit of mental crutch, they allow things to be said in an inorganic manner that seem profound, but are not deeply investigated.

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posted May 11, 2013 09:12 AM            

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

posted May 11, 2013 09:39 AM              

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God. ~Rumi

And more importantly

posted June 02, 2013 10:29 AM            

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
Jalaluddin (Rumi)

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Jalaluddin Rumi

posted June 02, 2013 05:40 PM            

My feelings EXACTLY!

My wish is for Eternal Love And Peace For All Humanity

posted June 03, 2013 09:09 AM            

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

posted June 05, 2013 07:47 PM            

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

posted June 05, 2013 11:16 PM            

This one really struck a chord for me:

All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun's light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but its still one light -Rumi

posted June 06, 2013 04:41 PM            

quote:

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All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun's light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but its still one light -Rumi

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posted June 08, 2013 09:10 AM            

Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad [Rumi]

posted June 08, 2013 10:59 AM            

You are welcome Juniperb! so much truth and wisdom in Rumi

Every war and every conflict
between human beings has happened
because of some disagreement about names.

It is such an unnecessary foolishness,
because just beyond the arguing
there is a long table of companionship
set and waiting for us to sit down.

What is praised is one, so the praise is one too,
many jugs being poured into a huge basin.
All religions, all this singing, one song.

The differences are just illusion and vanity.
Sunlight looks a little different
on this wall than it does on that wall
and a lot different on this other one,
but it is still one light.

We have borrowed these clothes,
these time-and-space personalities,
from a light, and when we praise,
we are pouring them back in.

posted July 30, 2013 10:54 AM            

― Rumi

posted July 30, 2013 05:27 PM            

quote:

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Originally posted by Lexxigramer:
�The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces.
Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.�

� Rumi

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Yep. The blind men and the elephant

by

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi in his
Masnavi

"If each had a candle and they went in together the differences would disappear

posted July 30, 2013 06:02 PM            

"I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen one. If anyone quotes anything except this from my sayings, I am quit of him and outraged by these words"

posted July 30, 2013 06:09 PM            

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Originally posted by shura:
Rumi is popular with practitioners of various faiths, even with secular humanists. Understandable. We in the west tend to forget (or perhaps conveniently ignore) that although he was a Sufi and therefore unrestricted by orthodox dogma, he was also a devout Muslim:

"I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen one. If anyone quotes anything except this from my sayings, I am quit of him and outraged by these words"

A sufi would no sooner advocate religion without the benefit of spirituality then they would spirituality without the benefit of religion. We live in the material world, after all.

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One foot on earth, the other foot in Heaven