"A candle loses none of its light by lighting another."~Rumi
"A guide has entered this life in silence.
His message is only heard in silence.
Don't insult the greatness of His love.
For He helps all those who suffer, in silence."
~Rumi
"A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek... spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire!The universe turns differently when fire loves water." ~Rumi
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” ~Rumi
"Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others." ~Rumi
"All is known in the sacredness of silence." ~Rumi
"All the world loves you, but you are nowhere to be found. Hidden and yet completely obvious." ~Rumi
"Although I may describe love, when I experience it I am speechless." ~Rumi
"Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking. Do not look fearfully into the distance. On this path, let the heart be your guide, for the body is hesitant and full of fear." ~Rumi
“And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” ~Rumi
"And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice." ~Rumi
"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?" ~Rumi
"Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday." ~Rumi
"Apart from Love, everything passes away. The way to heaven is in your heart. Open and lift the wings of Love!" ~Rumi
"Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison." ~Rumi
"As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and cleaner." ~Rumi
"As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears." ~Rumi
"Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears." ~Rumi
"At a distance you only see my Light, come closer and know that I am You. " ~Rumi
"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing." ~Rumi
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal." ~Rumi
"Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, from the Absolute." ~Rumi
"Be silent, only the hand of God can remove the burdens of your heart." ~Rumi
"By definition, human beings do not see or hear. I broke loose from definition." ~Jelaluddin Rumi
"By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself." ~Rumi
"Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything, But once we get drunk on love, Whatever will be, will be." ~Rumi
"Children tell stories, but in their tales are enfolded many a mystery and moral lesson. Though they may relate many ridiculous things, keep looking in those ruined places for a treasure." ~Rumi
"Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there!" ~Rumi
"A wise man doesn't say every single thing he thinks, but thinks every single thing he says." ~Rumi
"Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others." ~Rumi
"All is known in the sacredness of silence." ~Rumi
"All the world loves you, but you are nowhere to be found. Hidden and yet completely obvious." ~Rumi
"Although I may describe love, when I experience it I am speechless." ~Rumi
"Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking. Do not look fearfully into the distance. On this path, let the heart be your guide, for the body is hesitant and full of fear." ~Rumi
“And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” ~Rumi
"And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice." ~Rumi
"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?" ~Rumi
"Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday." ~Rumi
"Apart from Love, everything passes away. The way to heaven is in your heart. Open and lift the wings of Love!" ~Rumi
"Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison." ~Rumi
"As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and cleaner." ~Rumi
"As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears." ~Rumi
"Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears." ~Rumi
"At a distance you only see my Light, come closer and know that I am You. " ~Rumi
"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing." ~Rumi
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal." ~Rumi
"Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, from the Absolute." ~Rumi
Lifted from I.G.
"Be a witness, not a judge. Focus on yourself, not on others. Listen to your heart, not your crowd." ~Rumi
"Be an empty page, untouched by words." ~Rumi
"Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists." ~Rumi
"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought." ~Rumi
"Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is." ~Rumi
"Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter." ~Rumi
"Be grateful for whatever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond." ~Rumi
"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop." ~Rumi
"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear." ~Rumi
"Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming." ~Rumi
"Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists." ~Rumi
"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought." ~Rumi
"Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is." ~Rumi
"Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter." ~Rumi
"Be grateful for whatever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond." ~Rumi
"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop." ~Rumi
"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear." ~Rumi
"Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming." ~Rumi
"Be silent, only the hand of God can remove the burdens of your heart." ~Rumi
"Be silent. Meaning is lost when there are too many words." ~Rumi
"Be soulful; Be kind; Be in Love." ~Rumi
"Be still! Be quiet! Find acquaintance with silence. Go inside, delve into your heart. Take a day off from the clamor." ~Rumi
"Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love, if you are too careful, Love will not find you." ~Rumi
"Be with those who help your being." ~Rumi
"Beauty surrounds us." ~Rumi
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” ~Rumi
"Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape." ~Rumi
"Be soulful; Be kind; Be in Love." ~Rumi
"Be still! Be quiet! Find acquaintance with silence. Go inside, delve into your heart. Take a day off from the clamor." ~Rumi
"Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love, if you are too careful, Love will not find you." ~Rumi
"Be with those who help your being." ~Rumi
"Beauty surrounds us." ~Rumi
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” ~Rumi
"Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape." ~Rumi
"Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give." ~Rumi
"Being a candle is not easy in
order to give light one must first burn." ~Rumi
"By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself." ~Rumi
"Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything, But once we get drunk on love, Whatever will be, will be." ~Rumi
"Children tell stories, but in their tales are enfolded many a mystery and moral lesson. Though they may relate many ridiculous things, keep looking in those ruined places for a treasure." ~Rumi
"Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there!" ~Rumi
"Come back my soul, do not waste time for the cold-hearted. They do not know your worth. Why do you seek water when you are the stream?" ~Rumi
"Come out of the Circle of Time and into the Circle of Love." ~Rumi
"Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon the focusing heart." ~Rumi
"Conversation flowing from the heart is a sign of true friendship." ~Rumi
"Dance until you shatter yourself." ~Rumi
"Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul." ~Rumi
"Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets but they are not gone." ~Rumi
"Divine destiny knows our fate to the last detail. Let our story be told in a silent way." ~Rumi
"Do not be happy with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth." ~Rumi
"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth." ~Rumi
"Don't ask what love can make or do. Look at the colours of the world." ~Rumi
"Don’t be a stranger to yourself. Don’t run from the door of yourself." ~Rumi
"Come out of the Circle of Time and into the Circle of Love." ~Rumi
"Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon the focusing heart." ~Rumi
"Conversation flowing from the heart is a sign of true friendship." ~Rumi
"Dance until you shatter yourself." ~Rumi
"Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul." ~Rumi
"Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets but they are not gone." ~Rumi
"Divine destiny knows our fate to the last detail. Let our story be told in a silent way." ~Rumi
"Do not be happy with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth." ~Rumi
"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth." ~Rumi
"Don't ask what love can make or do. Look at the colours of the world." ~Rumi
"Don’t be a stranger to yourself. Don’t run from the door of yourself." ~Rumi
"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth." ~Rumi
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is within you.” ~Rumi
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is within you.” ~Rumi
"Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure." ~Rumi
"Don't go with the flow. Be the flow." ~Rumi
"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." ~Rumi
"Do not let them think that we have broken down. That we have cracked up. We merely dropped leaves, for a further spring." ~Rumi
"Don't plant anything but love." ~Rumi
"Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you." ~Rumi
"Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire." ~Rumi
"Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the world." ~Rumi
"Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that."
~Rumi
"Each moment contains a hundred messages from God." ~Rumi
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." ~Rumi
"Do not let them think that we have broken down. That we have cracked up. We merely dropped leaves, for a further spring." ~Rumi
"Don't plant anything but love." ~Rumi
"Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you." ~Rumi
"Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire." ~Rumi
"Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the world." ~Rumi
"Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that."
~Rumi
"Each moment contains a hundred messages from God." ~Rumi
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"Embrace the whispers of your soul, dance with the stars." ~Rumi
"Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.” ~Rumi
"Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon." ~Rumi
"Even if you leave in anger for thousands of years, you will come back to me. For I am your goal and your end." ~Rumi
"Every leaf that grows will tell you. What you sow will bear fruit So if you have any sense my friend don’t plant anything but Love" ~Rumi
"Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise." ~Rumi
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi, 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
"Every step of the way I will walk with you and never leave you stranded." ~Rumi
"Every sweet-scented rose tells from its heart the secrets of heaven and earth." ~Rumi
"Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still." ~Rumi
"Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says this truth, you harvest what you sow." ~Rumi
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart!" ~Rumi
"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl." ~Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it." ~Rumi
"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself." ~Rumi (The River of Love and Wisdom)
"Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees." ~Rumi
"Except for love nothing you see will remain forever." ~Rumi
"Find sweetness in your own heart, then you may find sweetness in every heart." ~Rumi
"Flow down and down in always widening rings of being." ~Rumi
"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious." ~Rumi
"Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion." ~Rumi
"Give up owning things and being somebody. Quit existing." ~Jelaluddin Rumi
“Give your weakness to one who helps.” ~Rumi
"Go find yourself first so you can also find me." ~Rumi
"Go towards kindness. if you are not sure where that is, you will be drawn in by fakes." ~Rumi
"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly - not one." ~Rumi
"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation!" ~Rumi
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” ~ Rumi
"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?" ~Rumi
"I looked in temples, churches and mosques. I found the Divine within my Heart." ~Rumi
"I looked inwards and the beauty of my own emptiness filled me until dawn." ~Rumi
"I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case heart might stop, Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets!" ~Rumi
"I love you neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in caseb the heart might stop, the mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets." ~Rumi
"I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself: a happy, life-cherishing description that will never end." ~Rumi
“I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you—all else melted away.” ~Rumi
"If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health." ~Rumi
"If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road." ~Rumi
"If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything!" ~Rumi
"If your eyes are opened, you'll see the things, worth seeing." ~Rumi
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death." ~Rumi
"In a night full of pain and darkness, be a candle spreading light until dawn." ~Rumi
"In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal." ~Rumi
"In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves." ~Rumi
"In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear." ~Rumi
"In the garden I see only your face. From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance." ~Rumi
"In the midst of conflict, be friendly and harmonious. If they rip apart your clothes, sew the pieces back together again." ~Rumi
"In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest
where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art."
~Rumi
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight." ~Rumi
"It's good to leave each day behind,
like flowing water, free of sadness.
Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
Today new seeds are growing."
~Rumi
“Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.” ~Rumi
"Let silence take you to the core of Life." ~Rumi
"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." ~Rumi
"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be." -Rumi
"Let the water settle and you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your being." ~Rumi
"Let your teacher be love itself." ~Rumi
"Let yourself become living poetry." ~Rumi
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." ~Rumi
"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go." ~Rumi
"Life's picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment." ~Rumi
"Light the incense.
You have to burn to be fragrant."
~Rumi
"Light up the fire of love inside
And blaze the thoughts away." ~Rumi
"Listen to silence.
It has much to say."
~Rumi
"Listen to the sound of waves within you." ~Rumi
"Listen with ears of tolerance.
See through the eyes of compassion.
Speak with the language of love."
~Rumi
"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor." ~Rumi
"Look at Love... how it tangles with the one fallen in love." ~Rumi
"Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake." ~Rumi
"Look for the answer inside your question." ~Rumi
"Look inside. Everything you want you already are.'' ~Rumi
"Look past your thoughts so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment." ~Rumi
"Love calls - everywhere and always." ~Rumi
"Love drives you mad from revelation to revelation through ordeal after ordeal until humble and broken you are carried tenderly into the heart of the rose." ~Rumi
"Love is a river. Drink from it" ~Rumi
"Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships." ~Rumi
"Love is the bridge between you and everything." ~Rumi
"Love is the cure - for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent."~Rumi
"Love is the endless ocean of God." ~Rumi
"Love is the religion, and the universe is the book." ~Rumi
"Love is the soul’s light." ~Rumi
"Love is the vital core of the soul. And of all you see, only Love is infinite." ~Rumi
"Love is the water of life, jump into this water." ~Rumi
"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces." ~Rumi
"Love is what gives joy to all of creation." ~Rumi
"Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end." ~Rumi
"Love risks everything and asks for nothing." ~Rumi
"Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible." ~Rumi
"Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure." ~Rumi
"No words can explain how inspired words spring out of silence." ~Rumi
"Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent!" ~Rumi
"On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day." ~Rumi
"On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter." ~Rumi
"On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion." ~Rumi
"On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear." ~Rumi
"One of the marvels of the world is the sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand." ~Rumi
"Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking." ~Rumi
"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not the thunder." ~Rumi
"Rare is the soul who holds my heart." ~Rumi
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place." ~Rumi
"Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief." ~Rumi
"Stars burn clear all night. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for!" ~Rumi
"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you." - Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
"Stop acting so small. You are the Universe in ecstatic motion." ~Rumi
"Take counsel from your heart, even though others may disagree. The truth is within you." ~Rumi
"Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free." ~Rumi
"The most beautiful place on earth- The very center of your heart is where life begins." ~Rumi
"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." ~Rumi
"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." ~Rumi
"The real beloved is that one who is unique, who is your beginning and your end." ~Rumi
"The road that leads to the city is endless. Go without head and feet and you’re already there." ~Rumi, The Root of the Root of your Self
"The roots of love are eternity.
The leaves of love are creation."
~Rumi
“The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand." ~Rumi
"The soul within soul lives in a lover." ~Rumi
"The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him." ~Rumi
"The surface of the Earth says, “The Treasure Is Within." ~Rumi
"The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming." ~Rumi
"The treasure of Unity is found by those who look within. Why not join your Spirit to the One who sits inside your Heart?" ~Rumi
"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." ~Rumi
"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are." ~Rumi
"The very centre of your heart is where life begins - the most beautiful place on earth." ~Rumi
"The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom." ~Rumi
"The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you." ~Rumi
"The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end. " ~Rumi
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." ~Rumi
"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." ~Rumi
"There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." ~Rumi
"There are many ways to reach God, I have chosen Dance and Music as my Path." ~Rumi
"There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been." ~Rumi
"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled." ~Rumi
"There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that." ~Rumi
"When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home." ~Rumi
"Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him" ~Rumi
"Wherever Beauty looks, Love is also there." ~Rumi
"Where the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues." ~Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” ~Rumi
"Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love." ~Rumi
"Wherever you are, be the soul of that place." ~Rumi
"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place." ~Rumi
"Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder." ~Rumi
"While the mind sees only boundaries
Love knows the secret way there." ~Rumi
"Whoever gives reverence, receives reverence." ~Rumi
"Why are you so enchanted with this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?" ~Rumi
"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open." ~Rumi
"Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom." ~Rumi
"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?" ~Rumi
"With each passing moment, a soul sets off to find himself." ~Rumi
"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love." ~Rumi
"With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face." ~Rumi
"Within tears, find hidden laughter. Seek treasures amid ruins." ~Rumi
"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words." ~Rumi
"Woman is the light of God." ~Rumi
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." ~Rumi
"You and your shadow are forever present in this world. You are that glorious Bird of Paradise." ~Rumi
"You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that." ~Rumi
"You are every image, and yet I am homesick for you." ~Rumi
"You are not a single drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a single drop." ~Rumi
"You're not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings." ~Rumi
"You are searching the world for treasures, but the real treasure is yourself." ~Rumi
"You are sitting beside the road that you seek blinded by moonlight, you search for the Moon." ~Rumi
"You are the road of love and at the end my home." ~Rumi
"You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly." ~Rumi
"You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me." ~Rumi
"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens." ~Rumi
"You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies, and bathe in the splendor of your own light." ~Rumi
"You have seen my descent, now watch my rising." ~Rumi
"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens." ~Rumi
"You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." ~Rumi
"You have within you more love than you could ever understand." ~Rumi
"You have woken up late, lost and perplexed. But don't rush to your books looking for knowledge. Pick up a flute instead and let your heart play." ~Rumi
"You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another." ~Rumi
"You suppose you are the trouble. But you are the cure. You suppose that you are the lock on the door. But you are the key that opens it. It's too bad that you want to be someone else. You don't see your own face, your own beauty. Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours." ~Rumi
"You transform all those who are touched by you." ~Rumi
"You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!" ~Rumi
"Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love that linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing." ~Rumi
"Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours." ~Rumi
"Your happy songs bring to me the scent of heaven. Please keep singing!" ~Rumi
"Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction." ~Rumi
"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths." ~Rumi
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"At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;
Then it landed on earth to look at me.
Like a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey;
That moon stole me and rushed back into the sky.
I looked at myself, I did not see me anymore;
For in that moon, my body turned as fine as soul.
The nine spheres disappeared in that moon;
The ship of my existence drowned in that sea."
~Rumi, Divan, 649:1-3,5
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“Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others' faults.
Be like running water for generosity.
Be like death for rage and anger.
Be like the Earth for modesty.
Appear as you are.
Be as you appear.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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"Be silent now
Say fewer and fewer praise poems
Let your life become living poetry."
~Rumi
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"Be thirsty heart,
Seek forever without rest.
Let this soundless longing
Hidden deep inside you
Be the source
Of every word you say."
~Rumi
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“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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"Deep in the heart every mystery of spirit is hidden.
Only from soul can soul draw its secrets,
Not from any page or eloquent speech.
The heart of the matter is soul, nothing else."
~Rumi
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“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
Hush, Don't Say Anything to God:
Passionate Poems of Rumi
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"Doing as others told me, I was Blind.
Coming when others called me, I was Lost.
Then I left everyone, myself as well.
Then I found Everyone, Myself as well."
~Rumi
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"Don't let them think that we've broken down;
That we've cracked up.
We merely dropped leaves,
For a further spring."
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"Even if you leave in anger
for thousands of years
You will come back to me
for I am your goal and your end."
~Rumi
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"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.
The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.
Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade,
But do not be disheartened,
The source they come from is eternal, growing,
Branching out, giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?
The source is within you,
And this whole world is springing up from it."
~Rumi
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"Go deeper past thoughts into silence,
past silence into stillness,
past stillness into the Heart.
Let Love consume all that is left of you."
~Beloved Rumi
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"Glorious is the moment we sit in the palace, You and I.
Two forms, two faces, but a single soul: You and I.
The flowers will blaze and bird cries shower us with immortality
The moment we enter the garden, You and I.
All the stars of heaven will run out to gaze at us
As we burn like the full moon itself, You and I.
The fire-winged birds of heaven will rage with envy
In that place where we laugh ecstatically, You and I.
What a miracle, You and I, entwined in the same nest;
What a miracle, You and I: one Love, one Lover, one Fire,
In this world and the next, in an ecstasy without end." ~Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)
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How does a part of the world leave the world?
How does wetness leave water?
No matter how fast you run, your shadow keeps up.
Sometimes it's in front!
Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow.
But that shadow has been serving you.
What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
Your boundaries are your quest.
~Rumi
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“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone?
Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors.
For you have been heart-breaking rock.
Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”
~Rumi
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“I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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"I don't know where I am
At times I plunge
to the bottom of the sea,
at times, rise up
like the Sun.
Oh soul, "
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"I don't love my friends with my heart nor with my mind
This is because, the heart stops, and the mind forgets
I love my friends with my soul
It never stops and nor does it forget.
~Rumi, My Friends
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I love my friends neither with
my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case heart might stop,
Mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forgets.
~Rumi
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"I said to Love,
"I am dying in anticipation."
Love said to me,
"That is where I want you.
Always on the verge!"
~Rumi
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I will soothe you and heal you.
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered in thorns.
~Rumi
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If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither;
Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes.
No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead
So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life.
~Rumi
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"In the centre of the rose,
A diamond burns
forever larger than all the worlds
more brilliant than any sun.
In the divine heart of the beloved
infinite passion arises
in infinite peace "
~Rumi
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“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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"Into my heart's night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day."
~Rumi
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"It's good to leave each day behind,
like flowing water, free of sadness.
Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
Today new seeds are growing."
~Rumi
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“Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi ~
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"Looking at my life
I see that only Love
Has been my soul’s companion
From deep inside
My soul cries out:
Do not wait, surrender
For the sake of Love."
~Rumi
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"Love is cure.
Love is power.
Love is the magic of change.
Love is the mirror of divine beauty."
~Rumi
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"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased.
Nor it is etched on stone, for stone can be broken.
But it is inscribed on a heart
and there it shall remain forever."
~Rumi
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"My heart is burning with love
All can see this flame
My heart is pulsing with passion
like waves on an ocean
My friends have become strangers
and I’m surrounded by enemies
But I am free as the wind
no longer hurt by those who reproach me."
~Rumi
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"My soul is from elsewhere,
I am sure of that, and
I intend to end up there."
~Rumi
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"Never lose hope
when the Beloved
sends you away.
If you’re abandoned
if you’re left hopeless
tomorrow for sure
you’ll be called again.
If the door is shut
right in your face
Keep waiting with patience
don’t leave right away.
Seeing your patience
your love will soon
summon you with grace
raise you like a champion.
~Rumi
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"Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.
Oh, you cannot go, without me."
~Rumi, The Joy That Wounds
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"Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul."
~Rumi
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“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.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"Stop the words now!
Open the window in the center of your chest…
And let the spirits fly in and out."
~Rumi
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"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.”
~Rumi
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"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along." ~Rumi
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"The soul has been given its own ears
to hear things,
that the mind doesn't understand."
~Rumi
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"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning is a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor...
Welcome and entertain them all.
Treat each guest honorably.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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"This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight."
~Rumi
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"Through the weeping,
I witness the path
I have chosen.
I search for a lost soul,
lost only to me.
With every step
I pull a caravan of fear,
But there is no turning back.
Not a star points your way.
What remains of your tenderness
Are the memories my mind
incessantly paints
And the yearnings of a heart
torn from the breast of love."
~Rumi
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"To dance is not to jump to your feet
and raise painlessly in the air like dust.
To rise above both worlds is to dance in
the blood of your pain and give up your life."
~Rumi
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"To place you in my heart
may turn you into thought
I will not do that.
To hold you with my eyes
may turn you into thorn.
I will not do that.
I will set you on my breath,
so you will become my life."
~Rumi
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"When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
When you feel you cannot
even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place
that the course will divert!
~Rumi
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"Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
Love comes and finds a heart
entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond." ~Rumi
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Who is in the house of my heart,
I cried in the middle of the night.
Love said,
"It is I, but what are all these images that fill your house?"
I said, they are the reflection of your beautiful face.
She asked,
"But what is this image full of pain?"
I said, it is me lost in the sorrows of life
and showed her my soul full of wounds.
She offered me one end of a thread and said:
"Take it so I can pull you back
but do not break the delicate string."
I reached towards her but she struck my hand.
I asked, why the harshness?
She said,
"To remind you that whoever comes to love’s holy space,
proud and full of himself will be sent away.
Look at love with the eyes of your heart.
~Rumi
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With every breath
I plant the seeds of devotion;
I am a farmer of the Heart."
~Rumi
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BIO
The 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī's birth is celebrated on this day, (October 1). Rumi was born in 1207. (Everyman's Library)
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Many of Rumi’s poems speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved. But his images bring the sacred and the earthy together in startling ways, describing divine love in vividly human terms. This volume draws on a wide variety of translations—from the early twentieth century to the present—of Rumi’s deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.
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"Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.” ~Rumi
"Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon." ~Rumi
"Even if you leave in anger for thousands of years, you will come back to me. For I am your goal and your end." ~Rumi
"Every leaf that grows will tell you. What you sow will bear fruit So if you have any sense my friend don’t plant anything but Love" ~Rumi
"Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise." ~Rumi
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi, 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
"Every step of the way I will walk with you and never leave you stranded." ~Rumi
"Every sweet-scented rose tells from its heart the secrets of heaven and earth." ~Rumi
"Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still." ~Rumi
"Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says this truth, you harvest what you sow." ~Rumi
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart!" ~Rumi
"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl." ~Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it." ~Rumi
"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself." ~Rumi (The River of Love and Wisdom)
"Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees." ~Rumi
"Except for love nothing you see will remain forever." ~Rumi
"Find sweetness in your own heart, then you may find sweetness in every heart." ~Rumi
"Flow down and down in always widening rings of being." ~Rumi
"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious." ~Rumi
"Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion." ~Rumi
"Give up owning things and being somebody. Quit existing." ~Jelaluddin Rumi
“Give your weakness to one who helps.” ~Rumi
"Go find yourself first so you can also find me." ~Rumi
"Go towards kindness. if you are not sure where that is, you will be drawn in by fakes." ~Rumi
"God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart." ~Rumi
"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly - not one." ~Rumi
"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation!" ~Rumi
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” ~Rumi
"Gratitude to the benefactor is certainly the same as gratitude to God, since it was Divine favour that caused beneficence to be bestowed." ~Rumi
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” ~Rumi
"Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty." ~Rumi
"Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others. Leave this play, you have played enough." ~Rumi
"Gratitude to the benefactor is certainly the same as gratitude to God, since it was Divine favour that caused beneficence to be bestowed." ~Rumi
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” ~Rumi
"Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty." ~Rumi
"Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others. Leave this play, you have played enough." ~Rumi
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"He who has led you so far will guide you further." ~Rumi
"Heart is sea, language is shore. Whatever sea includes, will hit the shore." ~Rumi
"Hold on to your particular pain. That too can take you to God." ~Rumi
"Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom." ~Rumi
"I am dressed with friendship." ~Rumi
"I am happy when I am sad. I am together when fallen apart. Like earth when I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside." ~Rumi
"I am not this hair
I am not this skin
I am the soul
That lives within."
~Rumi
"Heart is sea, language is shore. Whatever sea includes, will hit the shore." ~Rumi
"Hold on to your particular pain. That too can take you to God." ~Rumi
"Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom." ~Rumi
"I am dressed with friendship." ~Rumi
"I am happy when I am sad. I am together when fallen apart. Like earth when I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside." ~Rumi
"I am not this hair
I am not this skin
I am the soul
That lives within."
~Rumi
“I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.” ~Rumi
"I belong to no religion.
My religion is Love.
Every heart is My temple.
~Rumi
"I blessed the past with love and move gently into the new." ~Rumi
"I came back to you because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in you anywhere else." ~Rumi
"I choose to kiss you in the wind
For the wind is gentler than my lips
I choose to hold you in my dreams
For in my dreams, you have no end."
~Rumi
"I belong to no religion.
My religion is Love.
Every heart is My temple.
~Rumi
"I blessed the past with love and move gently into the new." ~Rumi
"I came back to you because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in you anywhere else." ~Rumi
"I choose to kiss you in the wind
For the wind is gentler than my lips
I choose to hold you in my dreams
For in my dreams, you have no end."
~Rumi
"I choose to love you in silence...
for in silence I have no rejection.
I choose to love you in loneliness...
for in loneliness no one owns you but me.
I choose to adore you from a distance....
for distance will shield me from pain.
I choose to kiss you in the wind ...
for the wind is gentler than my lips.
I choose to hold you in my dreams...
for in my dreams you have no end."
~Rumi
"I closed my eyes and spoke to you in a thousand, silent ways. In that darkness I created my own light..." ~Rumi
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” ~ Rumi
"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?" ~Rumi
"I do not want to waste my words on tired minds. I can only talk to those who are thirsty for the sea." ~Rumi
"I have been a seeker and I still am,
but I stopped asking the books and the stars.
I started listening to the teaching of my Soul."
~Rumi
"I know our faith is separation,
But until my last breath...
I will search for my sweet love,
I will seek my home." ~Rumi
"I know you're tired but come, this is the way.” ~Rumi
"I have been a seeker and I still am,
but I stopped asking the books and the stars.
I started listening to the teaching of my Soul."
~Rumi
"I know our faith is separation,
But until my last breath...
I will search for my sweet love,
I will seek my home." ~Rumi
"I know you're tired but come, this is the way.” ~Rumi
"I looked in temples, churches and mosques. I found the Divine within my Heart." ~Rumi
"I looked inwards and the beauty of my own emptiness filled me until dawn." ~Rumi
"I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case heart might stop, Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets!" ~Rumi
"I love you neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in caseb the heart might stop, the mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets." ~Rumi
"I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself: a happy, life-cherishing description that will never end." ~Rumi
“I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you—all else melted away.” ~Rumi
"I prayed so much that I turned into prayer." ~Rumi
"I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes... I saw many clothes in which there were no humans." ~Rumi
"I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God." ~Rumi
"I see my beauty in you." ~Rumi
"I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God." ~Rumi
"I see my beauty in you." ~Rumi
"I slept well last night but I woke up drunk. I much have dreamt about you. " ~Rumi
"I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being." ~Rumi
"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think." ~Rumi
"I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud." ~Rumi
"I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping." ~Rumi
“I will be waiting here…. For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!” ~Rumi
"I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being." ~Rumi
"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think." ~Rumi
"I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud." ~Rumi
"I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping." ~Rumi
“I will be waiting here…. For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!” ~Rumi
“I will whisper secrets in your ear, just nod and be silent.” ~Rumi
“I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.” ~Rumi
"If everything around you seems dark, look again, you may be the light." ~Rumi
“If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.” ~Rumi
"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home." ~Rumi
"If no one recognizes you, I do, because you are my Life and Soul." ~Beloved Rumi
"If the door shuts, do not go away.
Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.
The friend has secret ways known to no one else." ~Rumi
"If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows." ~Rumi
"If there is light in your heart you will find your way home." ~Rumi
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?" ~Rumi
"If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless." ~Rumi
"If you find all your roads and paths blocked, He will show you a secret way that no one knows." ~Rumi
"If you knew yourself for even one moment,
if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face,
maybe you wouldn't slumber so deeply in that house of clay.
Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice!
For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and have always been.
Didn't you know ?"
~Rumi
"If you only say one prayer in a day make it 'Thank You'." ~Rumi
"If you want something, release the wish, and let it light on its desire, completely free of personal." ~Rumi
“I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.” ~Rumi
"If everything around you seems dark, look again, you may be the light." ~Rumi
“If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.” ~Rumi
"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home." ~Rumi
"If no one recognizes you, I do, because you are my Life and Soul." ~Beloved Rumi
"If the door shuts, do not go away.
Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.
The friend has secret ways known to no one else." ~Rumi
"If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows." ~Rumi
"If there is light in your heart you will find your way home." ~Rumi
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?" ~Rumi
"If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless." ~Rumi
"If you find all your roads and paths blocked, He will show you a secret way that no one knows." ~Rumi
"If you knew yourself for even one moment,
if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face,
maybe you wouldn't slumber so deeply in that house of clay.
Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice!
For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and have always been.
Didn't you know ?"
~Rumi
"If you only say one prayer in a day make it 'Thank You'." ~Rumi
"If you want something, release the wish, and let it light on its desire, completely free of personal." ~Rumi
"If you want the moon,
do not hide from the night.
If you want a rose,
do not run from the thorns.
If you want love,
do not hide from yourself. "
~Rumi
"If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health." ~Rumi
"If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road." ~Rumi
"If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything!" ~Rumi
"If your eyes are opened, you'll see the things, worth seeing." ~Rumi
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death." ~Rumi
"In a night full of pain and darkness, be a candle spreading light until dawn." ~Rumi
"In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal." ~Rumi
"In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves." ~Rumi
"In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear." ~Rumi
"In the garden I see only your face. From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance." ~Rumi
"In the midst of conflict, be friendly and harmonious. If they rip apart your clothes, sew the pieces back together again." ~Rumi
"In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest
where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art."
~Rumi
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight." ~Rumi
"It is difficult to convey the majic of
love to those who are made of dust." ~Rumi
like flowing water, free of sadness.
Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
Today new seeds are growing."
~Rumi
"It is the fire of love that inspires the flute." ~Rumi
"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home." ~Rumi
"It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you." ~Rumi
"Journeys bring power and love back to you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self." ~Rumi
"Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there." ~Rumi
"Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness." ~Rumi
"Kindness is the greatest of all balms." ~Rumi
"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home." ~Rumi
"It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you." ~Rumi
"Journeys bring power and love back to you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self." ~Rumi
"Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there." ~Rumi
"Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness." ~Rumi
"Kindness is the greatest of all balms." ~Rumi
“Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.” ~Rumi
"Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live." ~Rumi
"Launch me in the sea of love and let me set sail!" ~Rumi
"Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing." ~Rumi
"Let silence be the art you practice.~" ~Rumi
"Launch me in the sea of love and let me set sail!" ~Rumi
"Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing." ~Rumi
"Let silence be the art you practice.~" ~Rumi
"Let silence take you to the core of Life." ~Rumi
"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." ~Rumi
"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be." -Rumi
"Let the water settle and you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your being." ~Rumi
"Let your teacher be love itself." ~Rumi
"Let yourself become living poetry." ~Rumi
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." ~Rumi
"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go." ~Rumi
"Life's picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment." ~Rumi
"Light the incense.
You have to burn to be fragrant."
~Rumi
"Light up the fire of love inside
And blaze the thoughts away." ~Rumi
"Listen to silence.
It has much to say."
~Rumi
"Listen to the sound of waves within you." ~Rumi
"Listen with ears of tolerance.
See through the eyes of compassion.
Speak with the language of love."
~Rumi
"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor." ~Rumi
"Look at Love... how it tangles with the one fallen in love." ~Rumi
"Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake." ~Rumi
"Look for the answer inside your question." ~Rumi
"Look inside. Everything you want you already are.'' ~Rumi
"Look past your thoughts so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment." ~Rumi
"Love calls - everywhere and always." ~Rumi
"Love drives you mad from revelation to revelation through ordeal after ordeal until humble and broken you are carried tenderly into the heart of the rose." ~Rumi
"Love is a river. Drink from it" ~Rumi
"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever." ~Rumi ❤
"Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships." ~Rumi
"Love is the bridge between you and everything." ~Rumi
"Love is the cure - for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent."~Rumi
"Love is the endless ocean of God." ~Rumi
"Love is the religion, and the universe is the book." ~Rumi
"Love is the soul’s light." ~Rumi
"Love is the vital core of the soul. And of all you see, only Love is infinite." ~Rumi
"Love is the water of life, jump into this water." ~Rumi
"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces." ~Rumi
"Love is what gives joy to all of creation." ~Rumi
"Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end." ~Rumi
"Love risks everything and asks for nothing." ~Rumi
“Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.” ~Rumi
"Love will find its way through all languages on its own!" ~Rumi
"Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them." ~Rumi
"Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." ~Rumi
"Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty." ~Rumi
"Magic happens when you don't give up even though you want to. The Universe always falls in Love with a stubborn heart." ~Rumi
"Maybe you are searching among branches for what only appears in the roots." ~Rumi
“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi ~ The Essential Rumi
"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence." ~Rumi
"My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can you place such big sorrows in it? "Look", He answered, 'your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world'." ~Beloved Rumi
"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there." ~Rumi
"My soul is racing ahead of me.
It says, The body is too slow for me -
I am going." ~Rumi
"Love will find its way through all languages on its own!" ~Rumi
"Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them." ~Rumi
"Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." ~Rumi
"Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty." ~Rumi
"Magic happens when you don't give up even though you want to. The Universe always falls in Love with a stubborn heart." ~Rumi
"Maybe you are searching among branches for what only appears in the roots." ~Rumi
“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi ~ The Essential Rumi
"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence." ~Rumi
"My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can you place such big sorrows in it? "Look", He answered, 'your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world'." ~Beloved Rumi
"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there." ~Rumi
"My soul is racing ahead of me.
It says, The body is too slow for me -
I am going." ~Rumi
"Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible." ~Rumi
"Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure." ~Rumi
"No words can explain how inspired words spring out of silence." ~Rumi
"Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty." ~Rumi
"Nothing gives me as much joy as the sailing boat of my silent heart." ~Rumi
"Notice how each particle moves. Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey." ~Rumi
"Nothing gives me as much joy as the sailing boat of my silent heart." ~Rumi
"Notice how each particle moves. Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey." ~Rumi
"Now be silent. Let the one who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key." ~Rumi
"Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent!" ~Rumi
"On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day." ~Rumi
"On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter." ~Rumi
"On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion." ~Rumi
"On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear." ~Rumi
“One day you will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.” ~Rumi
"One of the marvels of the world is the sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand." ~Rumi
"One of the most difficult task in life is removing someone from your heart." ~Rumi
"One that has a good friend does not need any mirror." ~Rumi
"One that has a good friend does not need any mirror." ~Rumi
"One who belongs to you, will come to you in its time." ~Rumi
"Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind. Now that’s a blessing." ~Rumi
"Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light." ~Rumi
"Once you have met a true human being, let him not disappear from the horizon of your heart." ~Rumi
"Only from the heart can you touch the sky." ~Rumi
"Only the soul knows what love is." ~Rumi
"Open to me, so that I may open.
Provide me with your inspiration.
So that I may see mine." ~Rumi
"Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart." ~Rumi
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense. " ~Rumi
"Pass on from the name, and look closer to the source. The source will show you what you seek. Leave the form behind." ~Rumi
"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never runs out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.” ~Rumi
"Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full." ~Rumi
"Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe." ~Rumi
"Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself." ~Rumi
"Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness." ~Rumi
"Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it." ~Rumi
"Prayer clear the mist and brings back peace to the soul. Every morning, every evening, let the heart sing O Beloved! There's no reality but you." ~Rumi
"Purify yourself and become dust so that from the dust flowers can grow." ~Rumi
"Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light." ~Rumi
"Once you have met a true human being, let him not disappear from the horizon of your heart." ~Rumi
"Only from the heart can you touch the sky." ~Rumi
"Only the soul knows what love is." ~Rumi
"Open to me, so that I may open.
Provide me with your inspiration.
So that I may see mine." ~Rumi
"Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart." ~Rumi
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense. " ~Rumi
"Pass on from the name, and look closer to the source. The source will show you what you seek. Leave the form behind." ~Rumi
"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never runs out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.” ~Rumi
"Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full." ~Rumi
"Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe." ~Rumi
"Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself." ~Rumi
"Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness." ~Rumi
"Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it." ~Rumi
"Prayer clear the mist and brings back peace to the soul. Every morning, every evening, let the heart sing O Beloved! There's no reality but you." ~Rumi
"Purify yourself and become dust so that from the dust flowers can grow." ~Rumi
"Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking." ~Rumi
"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not the thunder." ~Rumi
"Rare is the soul who holds my heart." ~Rumi
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"Recognising that 'unlearning' is a new form of learning." ~Rumi
"Reconciling to myself, I emerge into the world bare of all thought, clear love in which the sun on my doorstep dances to your drum." -Rumi
"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you." ~Rumi
"Remembering your scent, wherever I saw a flower, I smelled it and tears began to pour. Wherever I saw a cypress in the meadow, I kissed its feet in memory of you." ~Rumi
"Respond to every call that excites your spirit." ~Rumi
"Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him." ~Rumi
"Rub your eyes, and look again with love at love." ~Rumi
"Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad." ~Rumi
"See through the eyes of compassion. Listen with the ears of tolerance. Speak with the language of love." ~Rumi
"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that will demand your whole being." ~Rumi
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge." ~Rumi
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames." ~Rumi
"Reconciling to myself, I emerge into the world bare of all thought, clear love in which the sun on my doorstep dances to your drum." -Rumi
"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you." ~Rumi
"Remembering your scent, wherever I saw a flower, I smelled it and tears began to pour. Wherever I saw a cypress in the meadow, I kissed its feet in memory of you." ~Rumi
"Respond to every call that excites your spirit." ~Rumi
"Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him." ~Rumi
"Rub your eyes, and look again with love at love." ~Rumi
"Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad." ~Rumi
"See through the eyes of compassion. Listen with the ears of tolerance. Speak with the language of love." ~Rumi
"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that will demand your whole being." ~Rumi
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge." ~Rumi
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames." ~Rumi
"Shine like the whole universe is yours." ~Rumi
"Silence gives answers." ~Rumi
"Sit, be still and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof." ~Rumi
"Silence gives answers." ~Rumi
"Sit, be still and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof." ~Rumi
"Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, 'be more silent'. As that happens, your soul starts to revive." ~Rumi
"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place." ~Rumi
"Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief." ~Rumi
"Stars burn clear all night. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for!" ~Rumi
"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you." - Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
"Stop acting so small. You are the Universe in ecstatic motion." ~Rumi
"Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see" ~Rumi
“Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.”
~Rumi
“Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.”
~Rumi
"Swim out of your little pond." ~Rumi
"Take counsel from your heart, even though others may disagree. The truth is within you." ~Rumi
"Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free." ~Rumi
"Tears are prayers too, they travel to God when you can't find the words." ~Rumi
"Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be resolved." ~Rumi
"Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven." ~Rumi
"Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives." ~Rumi
"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." ~Rumi
"The art of knowing, is knowing what to ignore." ~Rumi
"Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be resolved." ~Rumi
"Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven." ~Rumi
"Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives." ~Rumi
"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." ~Rumi
"The art of knowing, is knowing what to ignore." ~Rumi
[“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore … Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”]
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"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you." ~Rumi
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep." ~Rumi
"The cure for pain is in the pain." ~Rumi
"The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires." ~Rumi
"The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him." ~Rumi
"The eye has already made love with what it sees." ~Rumi
"The eye is meant to see things.
The soul is here for its own joy."
~Rumi
"The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize." ~Rumi
"The fruits are first in our thoughts, but only in the end are they truly seen." ~Rumi
“The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.” ~Rumi
"The gardens may flow with beauty. But let us go to the gardener himself." ~Rumi
"The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else." ~Rumi
"The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one's might." ~Rumi
"The inspiration you seek is already inside you, be silent and listen." ~Rumi
"The lamps are different, but the light remains the same." ~Rumi
"The Light which shines in the eye is really the Light from the HEART." ~Rumi
"The lion is most handsome when looking for food." ~Rumi
"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was." ~Rumi
"The moment an inspiring thought enters your heart, appreciate it as a dear guest visiting you that day." ~Rumi
"The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open. Welcome difficulty as a familiar comrade. Joke with torment brought by the friend. Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, then are taken off. That undressing and the beautiful naked body underneath is the sweetness that comes after grief. The hurt you embrace becomes joy." ~Rumi
"The cure for pain is in the pain." ~Rumi
"The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires." ~Rumi
"The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him." ~Rumi
"The eye has already made love with what it sees." ~Rumi
"The eye is meant to see things.
The soul is here for its own joy."
~Rumi
"The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize." ~Rumi
"The fruits are first in our thoughts, but only in the end are they truly seen." ~Rumi
“The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.” ~Rumi
"The gardens may flow with beauty. But let us go to the gardener himself." ~Rumi
"The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else." ~Rumi
"The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one's might." ~Rumi
"The inspiration you seek is already inside you, be silent and listen." ~Rumi
"The lamps are different, but the light remains the same." ~Rumi
"The Light which shines in the eye is really the Light from the HEART." ~Rumi
"The lion is most handsome when looking for food." ~Rumi
"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was." ~Rumi
"The moment an inspiring thought enters your heart, appreciate it as a dear guest visiting you that day." ~Rumi
"The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open. Welcome difficulty as a familiar comrade. Joke with torment brought by the friend. Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, then are taken off. That undressing and the beautiful naked body underneath is the sweetness that comes after grief. The hurt you embrace becomes joy." ~Rumi
"The morning wind spreads
its fresh smell.
We must get up and
take that in,
that wind that lets us live.
Breathe before it’s gone."
~RUMI
"The most beautiful place on earth- The very center of your heart is where life begins." ~Rumi
"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." ~Rumi
"The quiet mind is a clear mirror, reflecting the truth within." ~Rumi
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"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." ~Rumi
"The real beloved is that one who is unique, who is your beginning and your end." ~Rumi
"The road that leads to the city is endless. Go without head and feet and you’re already there." ~Rumi, The Root of the Root of your Self
"The roots of love are eternity.
The leaves of love are creation."
~Rumi
“The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand." ~Rumi
"The soul within soul lives in a lover." ~Rumi
"The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him." ~Rumi
"The surface of the Earth says, “The Treasure Is Within." ~Rumi
"The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming." ~Rumi
"The treasure of Unity is found by those who look within. Why not join your Spirit to the One who sits inside your Heart?" ~Rumi
"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." ~Rumi
"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are." ~Rumi
"The very centre of your heart is where life begins - the most beautiful place on earth." ~Rumi
"The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom." ~Rumi
"The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you." ~Rumi
"The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end. " ~Rumi
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"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." ~Rumi
"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." ~Rumi
"There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." ~Rumi
"There are many ways to reach God, I have chosen Dance and Music as my Path." ~Rumi
"There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been." ~Rumi
"There are no rules of worship.
He will hear the voice of every heart that is sincere." ~Rumi
"There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that." ~Rumi
"There is a king who is aware of every mask you put on." ~Rumi
"There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life." ~Rumi
"There is a light in us that has nothing to do with night and day." ~Rumi
"There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light." ~Rumi
"There is a path from your Heart to mine!" ~Rumi
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love." ~Rumi
"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen." ~Rumi
"There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?" ~Rumi
"There is a window from one Heart to another Heart." ~Rumi
"There's nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves." ~Rumi
"There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body." ~Rumi
"These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them." ~Rumi
"This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are." ~Rumi
"There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life." ~Rumi
"There is a light in us that has nothing to do with night and day." ~Rumi
"There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light." ~Rumi
"There is a path from your Heart to mine!" ~Rumi
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love." ~Rumi
"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen." ~Rumi
"There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?" ~Rumi
"There is a window from one Heart to another Heart." ~Rumi
"There's nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves." ~Rumi
"There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body." ~Rumi
"These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them." ~Rumi
"This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are." ~Rumi
“This is how I would die into the love I have for you: as pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.” ~Rumi
"This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language." ~Rumi
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet." ~Rumi
"This is the miracle. Every tree becomes beautiful when touched by sunlight." ~Rumi
"Those who don't want to change, let them sleep." ~Rumi
"To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child." ~Rumi
"To love is to reach God." ~Rumi
"To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes." ~Rumi
"To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your Heart." ~Rumi
"Today I have found you, and those who laughed and 'scorned me yesterday are sorry that they were not looking as I did."
~Rumi
"Today, let me swim, wildly, joyously in gratitude." ~Rumi
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings." ~Rumi
"Truth lifts the heart like water refreshes thirst." ~Rumi
"Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you.. and do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?" ~Rumi
"Turn your eyes from the world’s hunger for pleasure. There is a deeper fulfilment in the infinite mystery of Love." ~Rumi
“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.” ~JM Rumi
"Very little grows on jagged rock. Be grounded. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are." ~Rumi
"Walk out of your house like a shepherd." ~Rumi
"Walk patiently through this troubled world, and you will find great treasure. Even though your house may be small, look within." ~Rumi
"We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart." ~Rumi
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet." ~Rumi
"This is the miracle. Every tree becomes beautiful when touched by sunlight." ~Rumi
"Those who don't want to change, let them sleep." ~Rumi
"To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child." ~Rumi
"To love is to reach God." ~Rumi
"To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes." ~Rumi
"To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your Heart." ~Rumi
"Today I have found you, and those who laughed and 'scorned me yesterday are sorry that they were not looking as I did."
~Rumi
"Today, let me swim, wildly, joyously in gratitude." ~Rumi
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings." ~Rumi
"Truth lifts the heart like water refreshes thirst." ~Rumi
"Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you.. and do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?" ~Rumi
"Turn your eyes from the world’s hunger for pleasure. There is a deeper fulfilment in the infinite mystery of Love." ~Rumi
“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.” ~JM Rumi
"Very little grows on jagged rock. Be grounded. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are." ~Rumi
"Walk out of your house like a shepherd." ~Rumi
"Walk patiently through this troubled world, and you will find great treasure. Even though your house may be small, look within." ~Rumi
"We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart." ~Rumi
“We are born of love; love is our mother.” ~Rumi
"We are stars wrapped in skin, The light you are seeking has always been within." ~Rumi
"We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us." ~Rumi
"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust." ~Rumi
"We are stars wrapped in skin, The light you are seeking has always been within." ~Rumi
"We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us." ~Rumi
"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust." ~Rumi
“We seek outside the wonders we carry inside us.” ~Rumi
"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life." ~Rumi
“….Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice. meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ~Rumi on loneliness
"What a joy, to travel the way of the heart." ~Rumi
"What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description. You are It." ~Rumi
"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle." ~Rumi
"What is arrogance? It is being oblivious and insensible to what is essential, as the ice is unaware of the sun. When ice becomes conscious of the sun, it doesn’t last long: it warms and melts and flows away." ~Jalaladdin Rumi
"What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout." ~Rumi
"What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest." ~Rumi
"What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest." ~Rumi
"What was whispered to the rose to break it open last night was whispered to my heart." ~Rumi
"Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love." ~Rumi
"Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that." ~Rumi
"Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place." ~Rumi
"...what you give is all you own...and often go out to meet a blade like a battered helmet." ~Jalalludin Rumi
"What you seek is seeking you." ~Rumi
"When a person falls in Love with the Divine Beauty Shining in another person, the Beauty he Loves, whether he knows it or not ~ is still GOD’s Beauty ~ its reflection in beings and people." ~Rumi
"When compassion fills my heart, free from all desire, I sit quietly like the earth. My silent cry echoes like thunder throughout the universe." ~Beloved Rumi
"When I am silent, I fall into that place where everything is music." ~Rumi
"When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside." ~Rumi
"When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep." ~Rumi
"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life." ~Rumi
“….Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice. meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ~Rumi on loneliness
"What a joy, to travel the way of the heart." ~Rumi
"What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description. You are It." ~Rumi
"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle." ~Rumi
"What is arrogance? It is being oblivious and insensible to what is essential, as the ice is unaware of the sun. When ice becomes conscious of the sun, it doesn’t last long: it warms and melts and flows away." ~Jalaladdin Rumi
"What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout." ~Rumi
"What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest." ~Rumi
"What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest." ~Rumi
"What was whispered to the rose to break it open last night was whispered to my heart." ~Rumi
"Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love." ~Rumi
"Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that." ~Rumi
"Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place." ~Rumi
"...what you give is all you own...and often go out to meet a blade like a battered helmet." ~Jalalludin Rumi
"What you seek is seeking you." ~Rumi
"When a person falls in Love with the Divine Beauty Shining in another person, the Beauty he Loves, whether he knows it or not ~ is still GOD’s Beauty ~ its reflection in beings and people." ~Rumi
"When compassion fills my heart, free from all desire, I sit quietly like the earth. My silent cry echoes like thunder throughout the universe." ~Beloved Rumi
"When I am silent, I fall into that place where everything is music." ~Rumi
"When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside." ~Rumi
"When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep." ~Rumi
“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias, and the difference between them.” ~Rumi
"When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Aaaah! let the soul emerge." ~Rumi
"When Love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back." ~Rumi
"When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Aaaah! let the soul emerge." ~Rumi
"When Love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back." ~Rumi
Photo: CTTO IG
"When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home." ~Rumi
"When something makes you rejoice in this world, consider at that moment the parting from it." ~Rumi
"When the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues." ~Rumi
"When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about." ~Rumi
"When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in a perfect position to pray." ~Rumi
"When we practice loving kindness and compassion, we are the first ones to profit." ~Rumi
"When the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues." ~Rumi
"When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about." ~Rumi
"When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in a perfect position to pray." ~Rumi
"When we practice loving kindness and compassion, we are the first ones to profit." ~Rumi
"When you're anxious or worried, be patient. The key of patience opens the door of happiness. "
"When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty." ~Rumi
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river running in you, a joy." ~Rumi
"When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth." ~Rumi
"When you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes." ~Rumi
"When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely. Return to the root of the root of your own soul." ~Rumi
"When you plant a tree, every leaf that grows will tell you what you sow will bear fruit. So if you have any sense, my friend, don’t plant anything but love. You show your worth by what you seek." ~Rumi
“When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.” ~Rumi
"When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty." ~Rumi
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river running in you, a joy." ~Rumi
"When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth." ~Rumi
"When you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes." ~Rumi
"When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely. Return to the root of the root of your own soul." ~Rumi
"When you plant a tree, every leaf that grows will tell you what you sow will bear fruit. So if you have any sense, my friend, don’t plant anything but love. You show your worth by what you seek." ~Rumi
“When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.” ~Rumi
"Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow's hand." ~Rumi
"Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one." ~Rumi
"Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one." ~Rumi
"Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him" ~Rumi
"Wherever Beauty looks, Love is also there." ~Rumi
"Where the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues." ~Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” ~Rumi
"Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love." ~Rumi
"Wherever you are, be the soul of that place." ~Rumi
"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place." ~Rumi
"Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder." ~Rumi
"While the mind sees only boundaries
Love knows the secret way there." ~Rumi
"Whoever gives reverence, receives reverence." ~Rumi
Lifted from Instagram
"Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey." ~Rumi
"Why are you so enchanted with this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?" ~Rumi
"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open." ~Rumi
"Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom." ~Rumi
"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?" ~Rumi
"With each passing moment, a soul sets off to find himself." ~Rumi
"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love." ~Rumi
"With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face." ~Rumi
"Within tears, find hidden laughter. Seek treasures amid ruins." ~Rumi
"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words." ~Rumi
"Woman is the light of God." ~Rumi
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." ~Rumi
"You and your shadow are forever present in this world. You are that glorious Bird of Paradise." ~Rumi
"You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that." ~Rumi
"You are every image, and yet I am homesick for you." ~Rumi
"You are not a single drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a single drop." ~Rumi
"You're not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings." ~Rumi
"You are so close...
I am listening to some lovely music.
The melody is slow and gentle and I can feel you in every note." ~Rumi
"You are searching the world for treasures, but the real treasure is yourself." ~Rumi
"You are sitting beside the road that you seek blinded by moonlight, you search for the Moon." ~Rumi
"You are the road of love and at the end my home." ~Rumi
"You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly." ~Rumi
"You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me." ~Rumi
"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens." ~Rumi
"You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies, and bathe in the splendor of your own light." ~Rumi
"You have seen my descent, now watch my rising." ~Rumi
"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens." ~Rumi
"You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." ~Rumi
"You have within you more love than you could ever understand." ~Rumi
"You have woken up late, lost and perplexed. But don't rush to your books looking for knowledge. Pick up a flute instead and let your heart play." ~Rumi
"You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another." ~Rumi
"You suppose you are the trouble. But you are the cure. You suppose that you are the lock on the door. But you are the key that opens it. It's too bad that you want to be someone else. You don't see your own face, your own beauty. Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours." ~Rumi
"You transform all those who are touched by you." ~Rumi
"You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!" ~Rumi
"You went out in search of gold far and wide, but all along you were gold on the inside." ~Rumi
"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?" ~Rumi
"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?" ~Rumi
“You’ll never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.” ~Rumi
"Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love that linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing." ~Rumi
"Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours." ~Rumi
"Your happy songs bring to me the scent of heaven. Please keep singing!" ~Rumi
"Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction." ~Rumi
"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths." ~Rumi
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"Your heart is the size of an ocean.
Go find yourself in its hidden depths. Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness
in every heart.
I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart."
~Rumi
Lifted from Instagram
"Your heart knows the way. Run into that direction." ~Rumi
"Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth." ~Rumi
"Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden." ~Rumi
"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." ~Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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VERSES
“A moment of happiness,
you and I
sitting on the verandah,
apparently two,
but one in soul,
you and I.
We feel the flowing
water of life here,
you and I,
with the garden’s beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be
a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed,
will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation,
you and I.
The parrots of heaven
will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together,
you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in
a timeless sweet land.”
Source: rumi.org.uk
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"A Stone I Died"
by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?
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"Absorbed in this world,
you’ve made it your burden.
Rise above this world.
There is another vision.
All your life you’ve paid attention
to your experiences,
but never to your Self.
Are you searching for your Soul?
Then come out of your prison.
Leave the stream and join the river
that flows into the Ocean.
It will not lead you astray.
Let the beauty you seek be what you do."
~Rumi
"Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden." ~Rumi
"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." ~Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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VERSES
“A moment of happiness,
you and I
sitting on the verandah,
apparently two,
but one in soul,
you and I.
We feel the flowing
water of life here,
you and I,
with the garden’s beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be
a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed,
will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation,
you and I.
The parrots of heaven
will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together,
you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in
a timeless sweet land.”
Source: rumi.org.uk
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"A Stone I Died"
by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?
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"Absorbed in this world,
you’ve made it your burden.
Rise above this world.
There is another vision.
All your life you’ve paid attention
to your experiences,
but never to your Self.
Are you searching for your Soul?
Then come out of your prison.
Leave the stream and join the river
that flows into the Ocean.
It will not lead you astray.
Let the beauty you seek be what you do."
~Rumi
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"At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;
Then it landed on earth to look at me.
Like a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey;
That moon stole me and rushed back into the sky.
I looked at myself, I did not see me anymore;
For in that moon, my body turned as fine as soul.
The nine spheres disappeared in that moon;
The ship of my existence drowned in that sea."
~Rumi, Divan, 649:1-3,5
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“Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others' faults.
Be like running water for generosity.
Be like death for rage and anger.
Be like the Earth for modesty.
Appear as you are.
Be as you appear.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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"Be silent now
Say fewer and fewer praise poems
Let your life become living poetry."
~Rumi
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"Be thirsty heart,
Seek forever without rest.
Let this soundless longing
Hidden deep inside you
Be the source
Of every word you say."
~Rumi
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“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"Come back my soul, do not waste time with the cold-hearted.
They do not know your worth.
Why do you seek water when you are the stream?"
~Rumi
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"Dance,
when you're broken open.
Dance,
if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you're perfectly free."
~Rumi
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"Deep in the heart every mystery of spirit is hidden.
Only from soul can soul draw its secrets,
Not from any page or eloquent speech.
The heart of the matter is soul, nothing else."
~Rumi
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“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
Hush, Don't Say Anything to God:
Passionate Poems of Rumi
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"Doing as others told me, I was Blind.
Coming when others called me, I was Lost.
Then I left everyone, myself as well.
Then I found Everyone, Myself as well."
~Rumi
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"Don't let them think that we've broken down;
That we've cracked up.
We merely dropped leaves,
For a further spring."
~Rumi
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"Do not run away.
Run inward,
As unripe grapes
Hurry toward their sweetness."
~Rumi
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"Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that."
~Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God
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Run inward,
As unripe grapes
Hurry toward their sweetness."
~Rumi
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"Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that."
~Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God
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"Each moment, moon, you beckon me to come.
You yourself know, but you ask how l am.
You're a cypress and words to you are wind;
I speak, and enraptured, you sway and bend."
~Rumi
"Even if you leave in anger
for thousands of years
You will come back to me
for I am your goal and your end."
~Rumi
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"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.
The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.
Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade,
But do not be disheartened,
The source they come from is eternal, growing,
Branching out, giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?
The source is within you,
And this whole world is springing up from it."
~Rumi
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"Go deeper past thoughts into silence,
past silence into stillness,
past stillness into the Heart.
Let Love consume all that is left of you."
~Beloved Rumi
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"Glorious is the moment we sit in the palace, You and I.
Two forms, two faces, but a single soul: You and I.
The flowers will blaze and bird cries shower us with immortality
The moment we enter the garden, You and I.
All the stars of heaven will run out to gaze at us
As we burn like the full moon itself, You and I.
The fire-winged birds of heaven will rage with envy
In that place where we laugh ecstatically, You and I.
What a miracle, You and I, entwined in the same nest;
What a miracle, You and I: one Love, one Lover, one Fire,
In this world and the next, in an ecstasy without end." ~Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)
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How does a part of the world leave the world?
How does wetness leave water?
No matter how fast you run, your shadow keeps up.
Sometimes it's in front!
Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow.
But that shadow has been serving you.
What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
Your boundaries are your quest.
~Rumi
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“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone?
Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors.
For you have been heart-breaking rock.
Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”
~Rumi
🍃🌸💗🍃🌸💗🍃
“I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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"I don't know where I am
At times I plunge
to the bottom of the sea,
at times, rise up
like the Sun.
Oh soul, "
~Rumi
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"I don't love my friends with my heart nor with my mind
This is because, the heart stops, and the mind forgets
I love my friends with my soul
It never stops and nor does it forget.
~Rumi, My Friends
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I love my friends neither with
my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case heart might stop,
Mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forgets.
~Rumi
🍃🌸💗🍃🌸💗🍃
"I said to Love,
"I am dying in anticipation."
Love said to me,
"That is where I want you.
Always on the verge!"
~Rumi
💐💐💐
I will soothe you and heal you.
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered in thorns.
~Rumi
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If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither;
Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes.
No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead
So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life.
~Rumi
🍃🌸💗🍃🌸💗🍃
"In the centre of the rose,
A diamond burns
forever larger than all the worlds
more brilliant than any sun.
In the divine heart of the beloved
infinite passion arises
in infinite peace "
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
🍃🌸💗🍃🌸💗🍃
"Into my heart's night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day."
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
"It's good to leave each day behind,
like flowing water, free of sadness.
Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
Today new seeds are growing."
~Rumi
🌼💖🌸🌻🌺🌹🌷
“Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi ~
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"Looking at my life
I see that only Love
Has been my soul’s companion
From deep inside
My soul cries out:
Do not wait, surrender
For the sake of Love."
~Rumi
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"Love is cure.
Love is power.
Love is the magic of change.
Love is the mirror of divine beauty."
~Rumi
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"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased.
Nor it is etched on stone, for stone can be broken.
But it is inscribed on a heart
and there it shall remain forever."
~Rumi
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"My heart is burning with love
All can see this flame
My heart is pulsing with passion
like waves on an ocean
My friends have become strangers
and I’m surrounded by enemies
But I am free as the wind
no longer hurt by those who reproach me."
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
"My soul is from elsewhere,
I am sure of that, and
I intend to end up there."
~Rumi
🍃🌸💗🍃🌸💗🍃
"Never lose hope
when the Beloved
sends you away.
If you’re abandoned
if you’re left hopeless
tomorrow for sure
you’ll be called again.
If the door is shut
right in your face
Keep waiting with patience
don’t leave right away.
Seeing your patience
your love will soon
summon you with grace
raise you like a champion.
~Rumi
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"Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.
Oh, you cannot go, without me."
~Rumi, The Joy That Wounds
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"Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul."
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
“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.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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"Stop the words now!
Open the window in the center of your chest…
And let the spirits fly in and out."
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.”
~Rumi
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"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along." ~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
"The soul has been given its own ears
to hear things,
that the mind doesn't understand."
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning is a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor...
Welcome and entertain them all.
Treat each guest honorably.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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"This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight."
~Rumi
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"Through the weeping,
I witness the path
I have chosen.
I search for a lost soul,
lost only to me.
With every step
I pull a caravan of fear,
But there is no turning back.
Not a star points your way.
What remains of your tenderness
Are the memories my mind
incessantly paints
And the yearnings of a heart
torn from the breast of love."
~Rumi
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"To dance is not to jump to your feet
and raise painlessly in the air like dust.
To rise above both worlds is to dance in
the blood of your pain and give up your life."
~Rumi
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"To place you in my heart
may turn you into thought
I will not do that.
To hold you with my eyes
may turn you into thorn.
I will not do that.
I will set you on my breath,
so you will become my life."
~Rumi
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"When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
When you feel you cannot
even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place
that the course will divert!
~Rumi
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"Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
Love comes and finds a heart
entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond." ~Rumi
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Who is in the house of my heart,
I cried in the middle of the night.
Love said,
"It is I, but what are all these images that fill your house?"
I said, they are the reflection of your beautiful face.
She asked,
"But what is this image full of pain?"
I said, it is me lost in the sorrows of life
and showed her my soul full of wounds.
She offered me one end of a thread and said:
"Take it so I can pull you back
but do not break the delicate string."
I reached towards her but she struck my hand.
I asked, why the harshness?
She said,
"To remind you that whoever comes to love’s holy space,
proud and full of himself will be sent away.
Look at love with the eyes of your heart.
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
With every breath
I plant the seeds of devotion;
I am a farmer of the Heart."
~Rumi
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"Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence." ~Rumi
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence." ~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
"You are so close...
I am listening to some lovely music.
The melody is slow and gentle
and I can feel you in every note."
~Rumi
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"You are the comfort of my Soul
in the season of sorrow.
You are the wealth of my spirit
in the heartbreak of loss."
~Rumi
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"You are the fountain of the sun's light.
I am a willow shadow on the ground.
You make my raggedness silky." ~ Rumi
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"You have escaped the cage.
Your wings are stretched out.
Now fly." ~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
"You have no idea
How hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine,
or water to the ocean.
Everything I came up with was like taking spices
to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my soul
Because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me."
~Rumi
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"You're not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings."
~Rumi
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"You are the comfort of my Soul
in the season of sorrow.
You are the wealth of my spirit
in the heartbreak of loss."
~Rumi
❤❤❤
"You are the fountain of the sun's light.
I am a willow shadow on the ground.
You make my raggedness silky." ~ Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
"You have escaped the cage.
Your wings are stretched out.
Now fly." ~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
"You have no idea
How hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine,
or water to the ocean.
Everything I came up with was like taking spices
to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my soul
Because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me."
~Rumi
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"You're not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings."
~Rumi
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"You whispered in my ears like early spring:
But there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
From this window, like the moon
I keep sending news secretly.
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
“For ages you have come and gone
courting this delusion.
For ages you have run from the pain
and forfeited the ecstasy.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Although you appear in earthly form
Your essence is pure Consciousness.
You are the fearless guardian
of Divine Light.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
When you lose all sense of self
the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely,
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You descended from Adam, by the pure Word of God,
but you turned your sight
to the empty show of this world.
Alas, how can you be satisfied with so little?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?
Open your eyes and come ---
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You were born from the rays of God's Majesty
when the stars were in their perfect place.
How long will you suffer from the blows
of a nonexistent hand?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You are a ruby encased in granite.
How long will you decieve Us with this outer show?
O friend, We can see the truth in your eyes!
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
After one moment with that glorious Friend
you became loving, radiant, and ecstatic.
Your eyes were sweet and full of fire.
Come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Shams-e Tabriz, the King of the Tavern
has handed you an eternal cup,
And God in all His glory is pouring the wine.
So come! Drink!
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
The road that leads to the City is endless;
Go without head and feet
and you'll already be there.
What else could you be? - you are That.”
❤Rumi❤
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"What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,
I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,
not from the shafts of nature nor from the spheres of the firmament,
not of the earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire.
I am not from the highest heaven, not from this world,
not from existence, not from being.
I am not from India, not from China, not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,
not from the realm of the two Iraqs, not from the land of Khurasan.
I am not from the world, not from beyond,
not from heaven and not from hell.
I am not from Adam, not from Eve, not from paradise and not from Ridwan.
My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,
no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.
I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.
One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.
He is the first, he is the last, he is the outer, he is the inner.
Beyond He and He is I know no other.
I am drunk from the cup of love, the two worlds have escaped me.
I have no concern but carouse and rapture.
If one day in my life I spend a moment without you
from that hour and that time I would repent my life.
If one day I am given a moment in solitude with you
I will trample the two worlds underfoot and dance forever.
O Sun of Tabriz, I am so tipsy here in this world,
I have no tale to tell but tipsiness and rapture." ~Rumi
“I am the call of Love,
can you hear me in the full grasses,
in the scented winds,
it is I who makes the garden smile.”
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
Your body is away from meBut there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
From this window, like the moon
I keep sending news secretly.
~Rumi
༺♥༻༺♥༻
“For ages you have come and gone
courting this delusion.
For ages you have run from the pain
and forfeited the ecstasy.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Although you appear in earthly form
Your essence is pure Consciousness.
You are the fearless guardian
of Divine Light.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
When you lose all sense of self
the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely,
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You descended from Adam, by the pure Word of God,
but you turned your sight
to the empty show of this world.
Alas, how can you be satisfied with so little?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?
Open your eyes and come ---
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You were born from the rays of God's Majesty
when the stars were in their perfect place.
How long will you suffer from the blows
of a nonexistent hand?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You are a ruby encased in granite.
How long will you decieve Us with this outer show?
O friend, We can see the truth in your eyes!
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
After one moment with that glorious Friend
you became loving, radiant, and ecstatic.
Your eyes were sweet and full of fire.
Come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Shams-e Tabriz, the King of the Tavern
has handed you an eternal cup,
And God in all His glory is pouring the wine.
So come! Drink!
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
The road that leads to the City is endless;
Go without head and feet
and you'll already be there.
What else could you be? - you are That.”
❤Rumi❤
✿¸.•*¨`*•..¸✿ ✿¸.•*¨`*•..¸✿
"What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,
I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,
not from the shafts of nature nor from the spheres of the firmament,
not of the earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire.
I am not from the highest heaven, not from this world,
not from existence, not from being.
I am not from India, not from China, not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,
not from the realm of the two Iraqs, not from the land of Khurasan.
I am not from the world, not from beyond,
not from heaven and not from hell.
I am not from Adam, not from Eve, not from paradise and not from Ridwan.
My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,
no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.
I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.
One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.
He is the first, he is the last, he is the outer, he is the inner.
Beyond He and He is I know no other.
I am drunk from the cup of love, the two worlds have escaped me.
I have no concern but carouse and rapture.
If one day in my life I spend a moment without you
from that hour and that time I would repent my life.
If one day I am given a moment in solitude with you
I will trample the two worlds underfoot and dance forever.
O Sun of Tabriz, I am so tipsy here in this world,
I have no tale to tell but tipsiness and rapture." ~Rumi
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"You have no idea how hard
I have looked for a gift to bring you.
Nothing seemed right.
What is the point of bringing gold to the
gold mine or water to the ocean.
Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It is no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.
So I have brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me."
~Rumi
BIO
The 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī's birth is celebrated on this day, (October 1). Rumi was born in 1207. (Everyman's Library)
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Many of Rumi’s poems speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved. But his images bring the sacred and the earthy together in startling ways, describing divine love in vividly human terms. This volume draws on a wide variety of translations—from the early twentieth century to the present—of Rumi’s deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.
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