Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?
RumiStart a huge, foolish project, like Noahโฆit makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
RumiShut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.
RumiAllah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the dust manifest. you see the dust whirling, but how can the dust rise by itself? you see the foam, but not the ocean. invoke Him with deeds, not words; for deeds are real and will save you in the infinite-life.
Rumi