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

- Rumi

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“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: As quoted in Marry Your Muse : Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 75

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“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”

- Rumi

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“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51

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“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”

- Rumi

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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: The Pocket Rumi, Shambhala Publications - ISBN: 9780834825055

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“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: As quoted in The Sufi Path of Love : The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (1983) by William C. Chittick, p. 162

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“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving — it doesn't matter, Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, Come, come again, come.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 67

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“I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world. If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: Divan 1740:1-3, as translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz in Reading Mystical Lyric : The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1998)

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“The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: As quoted in A feather on the breath of God by Nur Elmessiri in Al-Ahram Weekly Online Issue No. 385 (9 - 15 July 1998)

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“He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: As quoted in The Rumi Collection : An Anthology of Translations of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2000) by Kabir Helminski

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“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: As quoted in Rumi Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master (2000) by Timothy Freke

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“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 26

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“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.”

- Rumi

Source/Notes: Rumi Daylight (1990)

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