Rumi Quotes about Passion

I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He

I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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Pain, Eye, Passion

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

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Passion, Heart, Fire

With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

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Ocean, Passion, Play

The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

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Love, Running, Passion

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.

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Regret, Passion, Don't Regret

Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.

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Passion, Light, Tasks

A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?

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Moving, Passion, Heart

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

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Passion, Kissing, Garden

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Agony And Ecstasy”

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

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Passion, Doors, Voice

Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

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Passion

Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.91, Lulu.com

Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

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Passion, Wine, Men

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

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Peace, Passion, Eye

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.30, Penguin UK

Passion makes the old medicine new: Passion lops off the bough of weariness. Passion is the elixir that renews: how can there be weariness when passion is present? Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue: seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

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Love, Passion, Medicine

Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.91, Lulu.com

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.

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Inspirational, Pain, Passion

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

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Passion, Heart, Keys

I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love

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Passion, Love Passion, My Passion

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

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Dance, Peace, Passion

Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

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Love, Passion, Noble