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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about advice, commerce

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about poetry, fear, man

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the...

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

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about work, heart

Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand...

Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about reliability, despair, contentment

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

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

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about life, contentment

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by...

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.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about god, contentment

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about opinion

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of...

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about philosophy, existence, wish, night, self-control, being, day, contentment

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, ...

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about body, shadow, love

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about love, human imperfections, being, contentment

Every object and being in the universe is a jar...

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about philosophy, beauty, wisdom, being

Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't...

Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about philosophy, bad luck, bad, good, good luck, contentment

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another...

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about death, contentment

To Love is to reach God.

To Love is to reach God.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about love, god

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about love, nothing

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