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The quotations of

Rumi

Iranian poet

1207–1273

8 quotes, most often on God.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
Every success depends upon focusing the heart.
Masnavi, Book III, 2302-5 (tr. Helminski, 1996)
- Motivation & Goals
- Success
Reason is like an officer when the King appears;
The officer then loses his power and hides himself.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
IV, Story 4 (tr. Whinfield)
- God
- Thinking
Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.
III, 588 (tr. W. C. Chittick, 1983)
- Education
The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
I, 1389
- Character
- Courage
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it.
Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him.
IV, 2909-10 (tr. Chittick)
- Wisdom
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.
VI, 3640 (ed. Fadiman and Frager, 1997)
- God
If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.
Masnavi I, 3009-12 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
- God
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.
Masnavi II, 1552; 1554 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
- Emotion
- God

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