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.

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.

Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.