You have to break your heart

Spiritual quotes by - Jalal ud Din Mohammad Rumi 

You have to keep breaking your heart, until it opens.

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His epitaph -

When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth,

but find it in the hearts of men.

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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?

Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar with angels blessed. 

But even from angel-hood I must pass on.  All except God doth perish.

When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,  I shall become what no mind ever conceived.

Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence proclaims in organ tones,

To Him we shall return.

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Wandering for four years looking for his teacher and guide Shams e Tabrizi who simply disappeared Rumi one day said,

"Why should I seek? I am the same as He. 
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself!"

- Jalal ud Din Mohammad Rumi 

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“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.”

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"Raise your words, not voice. 

It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder…"

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

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“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

               - Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

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“The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.

They're in each other all along.”

                       

                                     - Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

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

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“What you seek is seeking you.”

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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

                                                               

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“Don’t grieve. 

Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

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

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“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

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“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. 

Unfold your own myth.”

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

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

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“This being human is a guest house. 
Every morning is a new arrival. 
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...
Welcome and entertain them all. 
Treat each guest honourably. 
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. 
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” 

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“People want you to be happy.

Don't keep serving them your pain!

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“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.”

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“Words are a pretext. 

It's the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
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“Two there are who are never satisfied -

             - the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.” 
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“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons.

Knocking on a door, it opens.

I've been knocking from the inside.” 

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“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

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“Who could be so lucky? 
Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.” 

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“I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.” 

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“And you? 

When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” 

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“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” 

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“They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is 

the use of a door when there are no walls?” 

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“Not only the thirsty seek the water, 

               the water as well seeks the thirsty.” 

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“When someone beats a rug,

the blows are not against the rug,

but against the dust in it.” 

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“There are lovers content with longing.

I’m not one of them.” 

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“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. 

Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.” 

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“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”  ______________________________________

“You were born with potential.

You were born with goodness and trust. 

You were born with ideals and dreams. 

You were born with greatness

You were born with wings.

You are not meant for crawling, so don't.

You have wings.

Learn to use them and fly.” 

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