Quotes from Rumi

Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . .

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

No prayer is complete without presence.

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.

Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.

I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.

My religion is, to live through Love.

The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.

Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

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