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Rumi on Valentine's Day

1207–1273 Afghanistan

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32 quotes

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
Every success depends upon focusing the heart.

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.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died, sun and cloud obey. As his heart is afire with knowledge and love, the sun cannot burn him.

That which God said to the rose,
and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,
He said to my heart,
and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Divine love elevates and sanctifies everything; without love, the world is worthless and incomplete.

The intellect cannot comprehend the creed of love.

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might.

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

Attributed

Love is the water of life; receive it in thy heart and soul.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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.

Misattributed Helen Schucman A Course in Miracles (1976)

Cease to behave as wolves and dogs that you may experience the Shepherd’s love.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Every moment the voice of Love is coming from left and right
We are bound for heaven; who has a mind to sight-seeing?

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Prize not at all life that has passed without love,
Love is the water of life: receive it in thy heart and soul.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Love is that flame which, when it is kindled,
Devours everything except the Beloved.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

The people of love are hidden among the peoples
As a liberal encompassed by the contumely of the base.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Seek sweet syrup in the garden of love,
For nature is a seller of vinegar and a crusher of unripened grapes.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

They say ‘What is love?’ Say ‘renunciation of will’
Whoso has not escaped from will, no will has he.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

None but God hath contemplated the beauty of God.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

'Twere better that the spirit which wears not true love as a garment
Had not been; its being is but shame.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Attribution

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