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Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming. -- Jerry Stahl
Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. -- Robert Bly
I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important. -- Andie MacDowell
Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life. -- Elif Safak
Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi -- Jody West
My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago. -- Hafez Nazeri
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. -- Aberjhani
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal." -- Aberjhani
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral... -- Coleman Barks
Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin. -- Coleman Barks
We had little idea that this was the beginning of a much greater journey towards finding our true self, with Rumi and Shams as our fearless guides. -- Jamila Hammad
I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything. -- Quincy Jones
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is really remarkable. -- Huston Smith
Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. -- Mary Lambert
My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Rumi and Shams taught us how to see the world with new eyes, how to find our place in the order of things, and how to extricate the true self trapped under layers of noise. -- Jamila Hammad
Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they're there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave. -- Ian Lawton
Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor. -- Jamila Hammad
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word." -- Coleman Barks
.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to act from the Divine Center of Silence and allow the glory of the Presence to soak our every movement. -- Andrew Harvey
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self. -- Coleman Barks
The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love. -- Rumi
If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to. -- Rumi

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