There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.

You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

Listen to presences inside poems.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow