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Rumi on Christmas

1207–1273 Afghanistan

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28 quotes

I am the sunlight falling from above,
Yet never severed from the sun I love.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Though the ruby has no stamp, what matters it?
Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

We are pieces of steel, and Thy love is the magnet,
Thou art the source of all inspiration, in myself I have seen none.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Love carried off as plunder the chattels which we possessed,
We are independent of profit and loss and market.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

For love of our Almighty God, the Lord of all,
Who would not die; a stock, a block, we needs must call.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Misattributed

You are in the bonds of (absorbed in) the arrangement of beard and turban,
How will you gain him who quaffs the mighty flagon (of love)?

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

O indestructible Love! O divine minstrel
Thou art both stay and refuge; a name equal to thee I have not found.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Attribution

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