-
A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived
Rumi -
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
Rumi
-
I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.
Rumi -
When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us. There’s no place like that anywhere in the world.
Rumi -
First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.
Rumi -
We are the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the moon, while we sit here together.
Rumi -
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
Rumi -
This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.
Rumi
-
Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
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 -
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.
Rumi -
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
Rumi -
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
Rumi -
I will whisper secrets in your ears, just nod yes and be silent. A soul moon appeared in the path of my heart. How precious is this journey
Rumi
-
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul, practice some song, or something, through me!
Rumi -
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
Rumi -
When you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
Rumi -
I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
Rumi -
When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
Rumi -
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
Rumi
-
Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world.
Rumi -
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?
Rumi -
When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.
Rumi -
My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.
Rumi